DBMS > RDF4J vs. Snowflake vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison RDF4J vs. Snowflake vs. TDSQL for MySQL 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 high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

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

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#213	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

rdf4j.org

www.snowflake.com

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

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

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Tencent

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2004

2014

2013

2011

Current release

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

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

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

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

JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

.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

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Based on Windows Authentication

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