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System Properties Comparison Oracle vs. Prometheus vs. RDF4J vs. Speedb vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Widely used RDBMS

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

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

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#315	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

prometheus.io/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Oracle

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

Speedb

Initial release

1980

2015

2004

2020

2017

Current release

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

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

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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 level can be parameterized

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

yes

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 capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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