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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Kinetica vs. Linter vs. PostGIS vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

RDBMS for high security requirements

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.kinetica.com

postgis.net/documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Kinetica

relex.ru

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

Initial release

2001

2012

1990

2005

2004

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

7.1, August 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

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

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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