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DBMS > Kinetica vs. Quasardb vs. RDF4J vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Quasardb vs. RDF4J vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. searchxml

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseRDF4J 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 structuresDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.kinetica.comquasar.airdf4j.orgwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comdoc.quasar.ai/­masterrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperKineticaquasardbSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Sybase, SAPinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20122009200419932015
Current release7.1, August 20213.14.1, January 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
PHP
Python
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesyesyes infoon the application server
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
yes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes infoTransient modeno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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