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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Valentina Server

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldrdf4j.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdrdf4j.org/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherevalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperExasolGoogleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SAP infoformerly SybaseParadigma Software
Initial release20002014200419921999
Current release2.1.12, February 201717, July 20155.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyesyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
JavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyes
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDByesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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EXASOLLovefieldRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereValentina Server
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