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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Graph Engine vs. RDFox vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

phoenix.apache.org

www.graphengine.io

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Oxford Semantic Technologies

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2014

2010

2017

2001

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

.NET

Linux
macOS
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

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

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
Java

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Roles, resources, and access types

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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