DBMS > EXASOL vs. Google BigQuery vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Google BigQuery vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

rdf4j.org

swaydb.simer.au

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Exasol

Google

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

Simer Plaha

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2000

2010

2004

2018

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Journaling Streams

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Atomic execution of operations

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 journaling

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

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