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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

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

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

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Score	0.39
Rank	#217	Overall
	#11	RDF stores

Website

hive.apache.org

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.rdf4j.org

Developer

Apache Software Foundation info

initially developed by Facebook

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

Initial release

2012

2004

Current release

2.3.0, July 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

Apache Version 2

Open Source info

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Java API
RIO info

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL info

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

User concepts info

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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