DBMS > Netezza vs. RDF4J vs. SAP IQ vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Netezza vs. RDF4J vs. SAP IQ vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Open Source Time Series DBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

siridb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.siridb.com

Developer

IBM

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

SAP, formerly Sybase

Cesbit

Mireo

Initial release

2000

2004

1994

2017

2020

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

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++

Server operating systems

Linux

included in appliance

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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