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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

GPU-accelerated database for real-time analysis of large and streaming datasets

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	72.32
Rank	#14	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.75
Rank	#194	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#305	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

www.kinetica.com/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Kinetica

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

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2004

2011

Current release

3.1.2, August 2019

6.0

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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

.Net

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

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

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

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

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

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Based on Windows Authentication

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