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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Ehcache vs. EXASOL vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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

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

Primary database model

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Exasol

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

Initial release

2015

2009

2000

2004

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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 query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JCache

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Java

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

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