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System Properties Comparison RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. Yaacomo vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

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Description

RDF4J 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)

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

RDF store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

rdf4j.org

rocksdb.org

yaacomo.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

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

Facebook, Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2004

2013

2009

2017

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

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

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

yes

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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