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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RDF4J vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

rdf4j.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Google

Microsoft

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

2015

2004

2011

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

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