DBMS > EXASOL vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA vs. TerminusDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA vs. TerminusDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

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

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

terminusdb.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Exasol

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

SAP

DataChemist Ltd.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2000

2004

2010

2018

1999

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

in-memory journaling

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

yes

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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