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System Properties Comparison RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. TerminusDB vs. ToroDB

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NameRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRDF storeKey-value storeGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.72
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiterdf4j.orgrocksdb.orgterminusdb.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Facebook, Inc.DataChemist Ltd.8Kdata
Initial release2004201320182016
Current release9.4.0, June 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Prolog, RustJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
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
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJava
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesJournaling StreamsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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