DBMS > HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Baidu

Microsoft

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

SAP

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2018

1992

2004

2010

2013

Current release

0.9

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

SQLScript, R

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

yes

simple password-based access control

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