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DBMS > RDF4J vs. SAP IQ vs. Sphinx vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison RDF4J vs. SAP IQ vs. Sphinx vs. Yaacomo

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NameRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRDF storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedSearch engineRelational DBMS
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Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiterdf4j.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlsphinxsearch.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SAP, formerly SybaseSphinx Technologies Inc.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release2004199420012009
Current release16.1 SPS04, April 20193.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesno
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSAP/Sybase Replication ServernoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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