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DBMS > RDF4J vs. SingleStore vs. TinkerGraph vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison RDF4J vs. SingleStore vs. TinkerGraph vs. VelocityDB

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NameRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRDF storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiterdf4j.orgwww.singlestore.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.singlestore.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SingleStore Inc.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release2004201320092011
Current release8.5, January 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
TinkerPop 3.Net
Supported programming languagesJava
PHP
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Groovy
Java
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnono
TriggersyesnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infohash partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)noyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.optionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesnoBased on Windows Authentication
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RDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLTinkerGraphVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsSingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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