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DBMS > RDF4J vs. Spark SQL vs. Titan vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison RDF4J vs. Spark SQL vs. Titan vs. YTsaurus

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NameRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
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 processingTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelRDF storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
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Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#324  Overall
#45  Document stores
#48  Key-value stores
Websiterdf4j.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikiytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Apache Software FoundationAurelius, owned by DataStaxYandex
Initial release2004201420122023
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Ubuntu
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesJava
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes, utilizing Spark Coreyes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess Control Lists

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