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

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

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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

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Event Store

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

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	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

spark.apache.org/sql

trino.io

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

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

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Event Store Limited

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

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2004

2010

2014

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

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

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

Java
PHP
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

SQL standard access control

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