DBMS > Apache Drill vs. EXASOL vs. Ignite vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. EXASOL vs. Ignite vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

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

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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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Score	2.28
Rank	#119	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	3.64
Rank	#89	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.exasol.com/resources

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Exasol

Apache Software Foundation

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

SAP

Initial release

2012

2000

2015

2004

2010

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

Java
Lua
Python
R

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

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 (replicated cache)

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

Depending on the underlying data source

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.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

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