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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. jBASE vs. MarkLogic vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

RDF store

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Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	6.50
Rank	#56	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.exasol.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.marklogic.com

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.marklogic.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Exasol

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

MarkLogic Corp.

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

Initial release

2000

1991

2001

2004

Current release

5.7

11.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL92

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

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

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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