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System Properties Comparison SAP HANA vs. Stardog vs. StarRocks vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

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

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.stardog.com

www.starrocks.io

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

docs.stardog.com

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

SAP

Stardog-Union

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2010

2020

2017

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

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

Java

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
MySQL protocol

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Role-based access control

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