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System Properties Comparison Prometheus vs. RDF4J vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

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NamePrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  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.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataAn 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
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiteprometheus.iordf4j.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhereswaydb.simer.auterminusdb.com
Technical documentationprometheus.io/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SiteWhereSimer PlahaDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20152004201020182018
Current release11.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemaspredefined schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-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 RESTOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBasenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby Federationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoRole-based access control

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