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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. HyperSQL vs. NSDb vs. RDF4J vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	3.90
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

nsdb.io/Architecture

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

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

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2008

2001

2017

2004

2006

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.7.2, June 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Java
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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