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DBMS > EXASOL vs. HBase vs. IRONdb vs. ObjectBox vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. HBase vs. IRONdb vs. ObjectBox vs. RDF4J

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.25
Rank#120  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score31.25
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#231  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.exasol.comhbase.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/objectbox.iordf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceshbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.objectbox.iordf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperExasolApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetCirconus LLC.ObjectBox LimitedSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20002008201720172004
Current release2.3.4, January 2021V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP APIProprietary native APIJava 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
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes, in Luanoyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awareonline/offline synchronization between client and servernone
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 per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACIDACID 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.yesyesnono
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 & ABACnoyesno
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