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System Properties Comparison Newts vs. ObjectBox vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

RDF store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

rdf4j.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.objectbox.io

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

OpenNMS Group

ObjectBox Limited

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

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2014

2017

2004

2015

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Java API

Proprietary native API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Java
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

multiple readers, single writer

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 capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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