DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Firebird vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Firebird vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

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

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#203	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

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

www.firebirdsql.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

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

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Firebird Foundation

Circonus LLC.

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

Initial release

2016

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2017

2004

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

5.0.1, August 2024

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

PSQL

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

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 per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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 and roles

Access control via Jena Security

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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