DBMS > RDF4J vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQLite vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison RDF4J vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQLite vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

rdf4j.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.sqlite.org

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

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

Alessandro Furieri

Dwayne Richard Hipp

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2004

2008

2000

2001

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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