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System Properties Comparison RDF4J vs. Sequoiadb vs. Solr vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

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

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2004

2013

2006

2018

Current release

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

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 using JSON

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Document is locked during a transaction

optimistic locking

Atomic execution of operations

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

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

yes

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