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

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

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Name

Description

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

Technical documentation

docs.opengemini.org/guide

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

surrealdb.com/docs

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Huawei and openGemini community

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

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2022

2004

2014

2022

2011

Current release

1.1, July 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

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

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

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

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

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

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

Administrators and common users accounts

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Based on Windows Authentication

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