DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDF4J vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDF4J vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Event Store

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.exasol.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

rdf4j.org

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Event Store Limited

Exasol

Microsoft

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

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2000

2016

2004

2013

Current release

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C#
Java
PHP

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Document is locked during a transaction

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

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

yes

simple password-based access control

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