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DBMS > H2 vs. RDF4J vs. RRDtool vs. SAP IQ vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. RDF4J vs. RRDtool vs. SAP IQ vs. YugabyteDB

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRDF storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
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Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comrdf4j.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­dochelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperThomas MuellerSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Tobias OetikerSAP, formerly SybaseYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20052004199919942017
Current release2.2.220, July 20231.8.0, 202216.1 SPS04, April 20192.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
in-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
PHP
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesnoyesyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenonenoneSAP/Sybase Replication ServerBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednoACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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H2RDF4J infoformerly known as SesameRRDtoolSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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