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DBMS > RDF4J vs. RDFox vs. Sequoiadb vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison RDF4J vs. RDFox vs. Sequoiadb vs. Sphinx

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NameRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRDF storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiterdf4j.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.sequoiadb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Oxford Semantic TechnologiesSequoiadb Ltd.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2004201720132001
Current release6.0, Septermber 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexno
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
proprietary protocol using JSONProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
PHP
Python
C
Java
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJavaScriptno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonereplication via a shared file systemSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDDocument is locked during a transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRoles, resources, and access typessimple password-based access controlno

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