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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Postgres-XL vs. RDF4J vs. RisingWave vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Postgres-XL vs. RDF4J vs. RisingWave vs. Rockset

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
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Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.postgres-xl.orgrdf4j.orgwww.risingwave.com/­databaserockset.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperExasolSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.RisingWave LabsRockset
Initial release20002014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB200420222019
Current release10 R1, October 20181.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageCJavaRustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSONdynamic typing
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyesUDFs in Python or Javano
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers and RolesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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