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System Properties Comparison Oracle vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

Widely used RDBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

www.oracle.com/database

www.sadasengine.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sqream.com

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

help.sap.com/hana

docs.sqream.com

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

SAP

SQream Technologies

Stardog-Union

Initial release

1980

2006

2010

2017

2010

Current release

23c, September 2023

8.0

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

SQLScript, R

user defined functions in Python

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

none

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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