DBMS > Altibase vs. FatDB vs. Hive vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. FatDB vs. Hive vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

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

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

hive.apache.org

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Altibase

FatCloud

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

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

SAP

Initial release

1999

2012

2004

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

via applications

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

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