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System Properties Comparison RDF4J vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

RDF store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.83
Rank	#202	Overall
	#7	RDF stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#332	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#155	Relational DBMS

Website

rdf4j.org

terminusdb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

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

DataChemist Ltd.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2004

2018

1987

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Journaling Streams

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

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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