DBMS > Apache Impala vs. EsgynDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. RDF4J vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. EsgynDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. RDF4J vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

machbase.com/dbms

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Esgyn

Machbase

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

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2013

2015

2013

2004

2006

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

V8.0, August 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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

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