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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. RDF4J vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SwayDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Well established RDBMS

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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Actian Corporation

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

Sybase, SAP

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2004

1993

2018

Current release

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java
PHP
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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