DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA vs. Spark SQL vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA vs. Spark SQL vs. TerminusDB

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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.

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

spark.apache.org/sql

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Event Store Limited

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

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2004

2010

2014

2018

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java
PHP
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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 journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Role-based access control

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