DBMS > RDF4J vs. Sqrrl vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison RDF4J vs. Sqrrl vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

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

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

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

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Simer Plaha

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2004

2012

2018

2011

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Java
Kotlin
Scala

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

none

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

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

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Atomic execution of operations

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 journaling

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

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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