DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. RDF4J vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. RDF4J vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.14
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.84
Rank	#209	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

rdf4j.org

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Event Store Limited

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

Rockset

SAP

Initial release

2012

2004

2019

2010

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

yes

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