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System Properties Comparison NSDb vs. RDF4J vs. Sphinx vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRDF storeSearch engineGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.07
Rank#371  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Websitensdb.iordf4j.orgsphinxsearch.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationnsdb.io/­Architecturerdf4j.org/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Transwarp
Initial release201720042001
Current release3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no
Secondary indexesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Proprietary protocolOpenCypher
Supported programming languagesJava
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentUsing Apache Luceneyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes

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