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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Hive vs. OpenSearch vs. RDFox vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

hive.apache.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

siridb.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Exasol

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Amazon Web Services

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Cesbit

Initial release

2000

2012

2021

2017

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

replication via a shared file system

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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 rights for users, groups and roles

Roles, resources, and access types

simple rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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