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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA vs. SQL.JS

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsRDF4J 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 servicePort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelEvent StoreRelational DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score44.69
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comwww.kinetica.comrdf4j.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlsql.js.org
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comdocs.kinetica.comrdf4j.org/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­hanasql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedKineticaSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SAPAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20122012200420102012
Current release21.2, February 20217.1, August 20212.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Appliance or cloud-serviceserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesSQLScript, Rno
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoyesno

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