DBMS > Hive vs. RDFox vs. SAP HANA vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. RDFox vs. SAP HANA vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

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

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

hive.apache.org

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

help.sap.com/hana

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Oxford Semantic Technologies

SAP

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2017

2010

2011

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

6.0, Septermber 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

replication via a shared file system

yes

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 in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Roles, resources, and access types

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

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