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System Properties Comparison RDF4J vs. ScyllaDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

RDF store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Score	0.83
Rank	#202	Overall
	#7	RDF stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#72	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#155	Relational DBMS

Website

rdf4j.org

www.scylladb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.scylladb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

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

ScyllaDB

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2004

2015

1987

Current release

ScyllaDB Open Source 6.2.0, October 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

free development license

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

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

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
PHP
Python

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes

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 tables

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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