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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Graph Engine vs. MaxDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Graph Engine vs. MaxDB vs. RDF4J

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRDF store
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Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.graphengine.iomaxdb.sap.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperExasolMicrosoftSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2000201019842004
Current release7.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation language.NET and CC++Java
Server operating systems.NETAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyesyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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EXASOLGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame
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