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System Properties Comparison RavenDB vs. RDF4J vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.01
Rank	#101	Overall
	#17	Document stores

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.57
Rank	#248	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

ravendb.net/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Hibernating Rhinos

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

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2010

2004

2012

Current release

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C#

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

no

yes

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.

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (RQL)

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes

no

Triggers

yes

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Authorization levels configured per client per database

no

no

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