DBMS > Altibase vs. Lovefield vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Lovefield vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
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Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

altibase.com

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

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

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Altibase

Google

Amazon Web Services

Oracle

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

Initial release

1999

2014

2021

2007

2004

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

2.5.0, January 2023

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C++
Java

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

optionally

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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