DBMS > RDF4J vs. Realm vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison RDF4J vs. Realm vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

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

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

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Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

realm.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

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

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2004

2014

2013

2018

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

C++ API
Java API

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

yes

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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