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DBMS > RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB vs. YDB

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NameRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.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 storageA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRDF storeKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.72
Rank#234  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score4.52
Rank#80  Overall
#10  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#385  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.36
Rank#281  Overall
#43  Document stores
#128  Relational DBMS
Websiterdf4j.orgrocksdb.orgswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Facebook, Inc.Simer PlahaYandex
Initial release2004201320182019
Current release8.10.0, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
C++ API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesJava
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedyesAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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