DBMS > EXASOL vs. Ignite vs. openGauss vs. RDF4J vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Ignite vs. openGauss vs. RDF4J vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

ignite.apache.org

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

rdf4j.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Exasol

Apache Software Foundation

Huawei and openGauss community

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2000

2015

2019

2004

2000

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

3.0, March 2022

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C, C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Java

Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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