DBMS > Quasardb vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Quasardb vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

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

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

quasar.ai

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

quasardb

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

SAP

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2009

2004

2010

2012

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

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

Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

yes

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

yes

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

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 updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

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

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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