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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. RDF4J vs. SQL.JS vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

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Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

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

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1984

2004

2012

2017

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JavaScript API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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