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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA vs. Tarantool

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Name

Description

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Website

hive.apache.org

www.kinetica.com

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.kinetica.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Kinetica

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

SAP

Initial release

2012

2004

2010

2008

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

7.1, August 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

yes

SQLScript, R

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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