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DBMS > EXASOL vs. HBase vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. HBase vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RDF4J

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.exasol.comhbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsrdf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperExasolApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBMMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release200020081983 infohost version20162004
Current release2.3.4, January 202112.1, October 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C#
Java
PHP
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in JavayesTransact SQLyes
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno

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