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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. RDFox vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Google

Oxford Semantic Technologies

SAP

Initial release

2010

2017

2010

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

replication via a shared file system

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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 privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Roles, resources, and access types

yes

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