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DBMS > RDFox vs. RethinkDB vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison RDFox vs. RethinkDB vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase

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NameRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.oxfordsemantic.techrethinkdb.comterminusdb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.techrethinkdb.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperOxford Semantic TechnologiesThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017DataChemist Ltd.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release2017200920181987
Current release6.0, Septermber 20222.4.1, August 202011.0.0, January 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++Prolog, RustC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes
TriggersClient-side triggers through changefeedsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding inforange basedGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesreplication via a shared file systemSource-replica replicationJournaling StreamsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-document operationsACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRoles, resources, and access typesyes infousers and table-level permissionsRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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