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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Hive vs. IRONdb vs. Memgraph vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Hive vs. IRONdb vs. Memgraph vs. RDF4J

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRDF store
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Score2.47
Rank#119  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score64.82
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score3.09
Rank#105  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
Score0.72
Rank#234  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.exasol.comhive.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/memgraph.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcescwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmemgraph.com/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperExasolApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookCirconus LLC.Memgraph LtdSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20002012201720172004
Current release3.1.3, April 2022V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infoFree license availableOpen 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 systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
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++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes, in Luayes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infodynamic graph partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication using RAFTnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID infowith snapshot isolationACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes 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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoUsers, roles and permissionsno
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EXASOLHiveIRONdbMemgraphRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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