DBMS > Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#131	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#109	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

rdf4j.org

www.snowflake.com

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Oracle

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

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Simer Plaha

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2007

2004

2014

2018

2019

Current release

14.1, August 2023

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

User concepts

Access control

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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