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System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. RDF4J vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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NameOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
RDF storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlrdf4j.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperOracleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Apache Software FoundationSTS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20112004201420112018
Current release23.3, December 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScalaC#Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes infoRDF Schemasyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonoyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark CorenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenonenonenoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodswith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infooff heap cacheno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnononoRole-based access control

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