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DBMS > Prometheus vs. RDF4J vs. Riak TS vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Prometheus vs. RDF4J vs. Riak TS vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

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NamePrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRDF storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiteprometheus.iordf4j.orgswaydb.simer.auterminusdb.com
Technical documentationprometheus.io/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Open Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSimer PlahaDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20152004201520182018
Current release3.0.0, September 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaErlangScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesnonoyes
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.no infoImport of XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes, limitednoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesErlangnoyes
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby Federationnoneselectable replication factornoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between datasets can be storednoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednoAtomic execution of operationsACID
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonononoRole-based access control

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