GraphDB vs Strabon
GraphDB
graphdb.ontotext.comStrabon
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| Figure | GraphDB | Strabon |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 0 |
| Spec score · RDF Databases | 8.1 (#9) | 6.7 (#26) |
| Deployment | GraphDB can run as a desktop or standalone server application and is also available on AWS and Azure. | The repository installation instructions describe setting up Strabon with PostgreSQL 12 and PostGIS 3.0, building it with Maven, and deploying an endpoint on Tomcat. |
| Product | GraphDB is an RDF and SPARQL semantic graph database used for storage and inferencing in the Graphwise AI Platform. | Strabon is a spatiotemporal RDF store for storing linked geospatial data that changes over time and querying it with extensions of SPARQL. |
| Support | The edition comparison lists community support for Free and SLA support for Enterprise. | The project lists separate mailing lists for users and developers; the developers channel also receives check-in messages. |
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In their own words
GraphDB
GraphDB is an RDF and SPARQL semantic graph database for storing data and performing inferencing in the Graphwise AI Platform. It supports SPARQL 1.1, RDF4J compatibility, RDFS and OWL 2 RL and QL rulesets, federated queries, and RDF-star. Its real-time forward-chaining reasoning operates across datasets, and the product page describes native GraphRAG and LangChain integration. GraphDB can run as a desktop or standalone server application, be self-hosted, or be deployed on AWS and Azure; downloads are listed for Windows, macOS, Linux, and a platform-independent distribution. The Free edition includes a Lucene connector, one parallel query, and up to five repositories; GraphDB 11 and later requires a free license. Enterprise supports multiple cores, unlimited repositories, high-availability clustering, and connectors for Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr, and Kafka. Free is on-premise only with community support. Enterprise includes SLA support and is licensed per server CPU core, with each cluster node licensed separately. Free costs nothing; Enterprise pricing is on request.