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DBMS > RDF4J vs. Spark SQL vs. Teradata Aster vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison RDF4J vs. Spark SQL vs. Teradata Aster vs. TinkerGraph

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NameRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRDF storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiterdf4j.orgspark.apache.org/­sqltinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Apache Software FoundationTeradata
Initial release2004201420052009
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoRDF SchemasyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeschema-free
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.noyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJava
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoR packagesno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes, utilizing Spark CoreShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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