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DBMS > EXASOL vs. MonetDB vs. RDF4J vs. Rockset vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. MonetDB vs. RDF4J vs. Rockset vs. YDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
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Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.monetdb.orgrdf4j.orgrockset.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.rockset.comydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperExasolMonetDB BVSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.RocksetYandex
Initial release20002004200420192019
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCJavaC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesdynamic typingyes
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.nono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, Ryesnono
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesnoneAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnoneyesActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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