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DBMS > HBase vs. RavenDB vs. RDF4J vs. Splice Machine vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. RavenDB vs. RDF4J vs. Splice Machine vs. SWC-DB

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeRDF storeRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitehbase.apache.orgravendb.netrdf4j.orgsplicemachine.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlravendb.net/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentationsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHibernating RhinosSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Splice MachineAlex Kashirin
Initial release20082010200420142020
Current release2.3.4, January 20215.4, July 20223.1, March 20210.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyesyes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (RQL)noyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javayesyesyes infoJavano
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAuthorization levels configured per client per databasenoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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