DBMS > Newts vs. Quasardb vs. RDF4J vs. Sequoiadb vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Newts vs. Quasardb vs. RDF4J vs. Sequoiadb vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

RDF store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

doc.quasar.ai/master

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

OpenNMS Group

quasardb

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

Sequoiadb Ltd.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2009

2004

2013

2010

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

proprietary protocol using JSON

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

simple password-based access control

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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