DBMS > Apache Drill vs. NuoDB vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. NuoDB vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

Document store
Object oriented 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	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

origodb.com

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

doc.nuodb.com

origodb.com/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Robert Friberg et al

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

SAP

Initial release

2012

2013

2009

under the name LiveDB

2004

2010

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

limited edition free

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
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

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, SQL

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Write ahead log

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Role based authorization

yes

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