DBMS > EXASOL vs. Firebolt vs. KairosDB vs. RDF4J vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Firebolt vs. KairosDB vs. RDF4J vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

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

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

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

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.firebolt.io

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

rdf4j.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.firebolt.io

kairosdb.github.io

rdf4j.org/documentation

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Exasol

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

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

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2000

2020

2013

2004

1999

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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