DBMS > Apache Drill vs. atoti vs. RDF4J vs. SAP IQ vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. atoti vs. RDF4J vs. SAP IQ vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

atoti.io

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.atoti.io

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

ActiveViam

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

SAP, formerly Sybase

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2004

1994

2020

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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