DBMS > RDFox vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison RDFox vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP IQ vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	4.02
Rank	#74	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

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

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Oxford Semantic Technologies

SAP

SAP, formerly Sybase

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2017

2010

1994

2013

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

replication via a shared file system

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Roles, resources, and access types

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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