DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.kinetica.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

docs.kinetica.com

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Event Store Limited

Kinetica

Oracle

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

SAP

Initial release

2012

2007

2004

2010

Current release

21.2, February 2021

7.1, August 2021

14.1, August 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Java

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

configurable

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

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