DBMS > Derby vs. JaguarDB vs. RDF4J vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. JaguarDB vs. RDF4J vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.jaguardb.com

rdf4j.org

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

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

DataJaguar, Inc.

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

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

1997

2015

2004

1994

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

3.3 July 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

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++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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