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System Properties Comparison RDFox vs. SwayDB vs. Tarantool vs. Trino

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Name

Description

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

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

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#139	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#24	Key-value stores
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	5.28
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

swaydb.simer.au

www.tarantool.io

trino.io

Technical documentation

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Developer

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Simer Plaha

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2017

2018

2008

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Open binary protocol

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

C
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

replication via a shared file system

none

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Immediate Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Roles, resources, and access types

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

SQL standard access control

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