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System Properties Comparison searchxml vs. Stardog vs. Trafodion vs. Transbase

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

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

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.stardog.com

trafodion.apache.org

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

Technical documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.stardog.com

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

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

Developer

informationpartners gmbh

Stardog-Union

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2015

2010

2014

1987

Current release

1.0

7.3.0, May 2020

2.3.0, February 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

yes

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

yes, via HBase

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

yes

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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