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System Properties Comparison RDF4J vs. SwayDB vs. YottaDB vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

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

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

RDF store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

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

Simer Plaha

YottaDB, LLC

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2004

2018

2001

2017

Current release

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Docker
Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

depending on used data model

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

by using the Octo plugin

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

Java
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

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 execution of operations

optimistic locking

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

based on RocksDB

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 and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

yes

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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