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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Heroic vs. RDFox vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Website

hbase.apache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Spotify

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2008

2014

2017

1993

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

replication via a shared file system

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Roles, resources, and access types

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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