DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. BigchainDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. BigchainDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/redshift

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

www.bigchaindb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2012

2000

2016

1998

Current release

2.1, December 2018

4.9.0, July 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access control via Jena Security

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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