DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. MaxDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. MaxDB vs. OpenTSDB 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.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

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

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.14
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	2.65
Rank	#111	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#147	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Event Store Limited

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

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

SAP

Initial release

2012

1984

2011

2004

2010

Current release

21.2, February 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

LGPL

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++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

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

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP API
Telnet API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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 capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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