BrightstarDB vs QLever
BrightstarDB
brightstardb.comQLever
qlever.devSide by side
| Figure | BrightstarDB | QLever |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · RDF Databases | 7.7 (#13) | 7.9 (#12) |
| Embedded use | The site says its core libraries have a small footprint and install with zero configuration for embedded applications. | QLever can run as an embedded database inside C++ code without a client-server setup. |
| Support | The official site says community support is available through the GitHub issue tracker and commercial support is available from NetworkedPlanet. | For bugs or missing features, the project asks users to search existing GitHub issues or open an issue or discussion. |
Plans
In their own words
BrightstarDB
BrightstarDB has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
QLever
QLever is an open-source graph database for loading and querying large RDF datasets. It implements SPARQL 1.1, including federated queries, named graphs, the Graph Store HTTP Protocol, and updates. The project says it can handle more than a trillion triples on a single commodity machine. It also provides text search over knowledge bases, context-sensitive SPARQL autocompletion, live query analysis, and spatial queries with interactive maps of large sets of geometric objects. QLever can run embedded inside C++ code without a client-server setup. Example datasets include Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, OpenStreetMap, UniProt, PubChem, and DBLP. It is self-hosted, with official packages for Debian, Ubuntu, Ubuntu-derived distributions, and macOS, plus Docker and Podman images. The official Homebrew package supports ARM64 Apple Silicon Macs, not Intel Macs. Windows use runs Docker inside a virtual machine and may incur significant performance and RAM costs; binary releases are in progress. QLever is free under the Apache 2.0 license.