DBMS > RDF4J vs. Snowflake vs. SurrealDB vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison RDF4J vs. Snowflake vs. SurrealDB vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

rdf4j.org

www.snowflake.com

surrealdb.com

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

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

surrealdb.com/docs

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

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

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

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Transaction Software GmbH

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2004

2014

2022

1987

2011

Current release

v1.5.0, May 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

ACID

yes

ACID

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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