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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. MonetDB vs. NuoDB vs. RDF4J vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
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Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.monetdb.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

rdf4j.org

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

doc.nuodb.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Esgyn

MonetDB BV

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

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

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2015

2004

2013

2004

2006

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
Linux
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 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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

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