DBMS > Aerospike vs. EXASOL vs. GraphDB vs. RDF4J vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. EXASOL vs. GraphDB vs. RDF4J vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	3.27
Rank	#97	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#111	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	0.73
Rank	#204	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	47.78
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

www.aerospike.com/docs

www.exasol.com/resources

graphdb.ontotext.com/documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/viewer/product/SAP_ASE

Social network pages

Developer

Aerospike

Exasol

Ontotext

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2012

2000

2004

1987

Current release

6.0.0.0, April 2022

9.8, June 2021

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Some plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourced

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapes

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

yes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

stored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

user defined functions

well-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibility

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Constraint checking

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Access rights for users and roles

with Enterprise Edition only

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Default Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Aerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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GraphDB Enterprise is a high-performance semantic repository created by Ontotext....
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Competitive advantages

Optimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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GraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Typical application scenarios

Aerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Metadata enrichment and management, linked open data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Key customers

Nielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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BBC, Press Association, Financial Times, DK, Euromoney, The British Museum, Getty...
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Market metrics

Aerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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GraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

Subscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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GraphDB-Free is free to use. SE and Enterprise are licensed per CPU-Core used. Perpetual...
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News

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27 April 2022

AWS Sponsors Aerospike’s Summit 2022: Mission Now
6 April 2022

Aerospike Accelerates Real-time Data Management in the Cloud
29 March 2022

Aerospike’s Rapid Growth Lands Spot on Inc. Magazine’s List of the Pacific Region’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies
16 March 2022

Aerospike Records Best Year in Company History
8 February 2022

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More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Evaluating Hbase and Aerospike Solutions for Real-time System of Record
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Conferences and events

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Roadshow
5/17 London | 5/18 San Francisco | 5/24 Bangalore | 6/28 Tel Aviv, 12 May 2022 - 28 June 2022

Effective Sanctions Compliance with Ontotext
Webinar, 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm BST / 5pm CEST, 13 April 2022 (finished)

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23 May 2022, Datanami

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3 May 2022, Business Wire

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Ontotext Webinar - GraphDB as Company Data Central
10 March 2022, PR Newswire

Ontotext Demo Day
20 April 2022, PR Newswire

Ontotext GraphDB 9.4 Enables SQL Access to Knowledge Graphs and Visual Mapping of Tabular Data to RDF
11 September 2020, PR Newswire

Ontotext and Synaptica join forces with a shared product roadmap to speed up the development of Enterprise Knowledge Graphs.
16 November 2020, PR Newswire

Ontotext's GraphDB 9.0 Open-sources its Front-end and Engine Plugins to Empower Knowledge Graph Solutions
3 October 2019, PR Newswire

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Partners become central to SAP industry cloud business
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Critical SAP ASE Flaws Allow Complete Control of Databases
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