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System Properties Comparison RDFox vs. SpatiaLite vs. Splunk vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Spatial extension of SQLite

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.splunk.com

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Alessandro Furieri

Splunk Inc.

Timescale

Initial release

2017

2008

2003

2017

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

replication via a shared file system

none

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Roles, resources, and access types

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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