DBMS > EXASOL vs. FatDB vs. Interbase vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. FatDB vs. Interbase vs. RDF4J

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.exasol.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Exasol

FatCloud

Embarcadero

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

Initial release

2000

2012

1984

2004

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

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

Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

via applications

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Interbase Change Views

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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