DBMS > openGauss vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison openGauss vs. RDF4J vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.17
Rank	#192	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	1.17
Rank	#194	Overall
	#8	RDF stores

Score	117.26
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Website

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

rdf4j.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

gitee.com/opengauss/docs
opengauss.org/en/docs/latest/docs/BriefTutorial/BriefTutorial.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Huawei and openGauss community

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

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2019

2004

2014

Current release

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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