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DBMS > HBase vs. RDF4J vs. Sadas Engine vs. TinkerGraph vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. RDF4J vs. Sadas Engine vs. TinkerGraph vs. Titan

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableRDF4J 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 environmentsA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APITitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelWide column storeRDF storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgrdf4j.orgwww.sadasengine.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlingithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SADAS s.r.l.Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20082004200620092012
Current release2.3.4, January 20218.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop 3Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javayesnonoyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioningnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesoptionalyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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