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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. RDF4J vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#271	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

MonetDB BV

OpenPie

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

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2004

2018

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.1, January 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

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 2003 with some extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

yes

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

none

Journaling Streams

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

in-memory journaling

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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