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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Netezza vs. RDF4J vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

rdf4j.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

IBM

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

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2008

2000

2004

2020

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GPL V3

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

included in appliance

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Java
PHP
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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