DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

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

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

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

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Alibaba

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

SAP

Initial release

2014

2016

2007

2000

2010

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

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

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Atomic single-row operations

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access control via Jena Security

yes

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