DBMS > Derby vs. Pinecone vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Pinecone vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA

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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.

A managed, cloud-native vector database

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.pinecone.io

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Pinecone Systems, Inc

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

SAP

Initial release

1997

2019

2004

2010

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Python

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes

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