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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. BaseX vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

basex.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.sadasengine.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

docs.basex.org

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Franz Inc.

BaseX GmbH

Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

SAP

Initial release

2004

2007

2011

2006

2010

Current release

8.0, December 2023

10.7, August 2023

23.3, December 2023

8.0

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

AIX
Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

optional

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.

bulk load of XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

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

off heap cache

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users and roles

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

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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