DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. RDF4J vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Tarantool

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. RDF4J vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Tarantool

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Name	Alibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparison	RDF4J formerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Tarantool  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service	RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	RDF store	Relational DBMS	Document store Key-value store Relational DBMS
Secondary database models				Spatial DBMS with Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.29 Rank #301   Overall #26   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.74 Rank #222   Overall #9   RDF stores		Score 1.67 Rank #143   Overall #25   Document stores #25   Key-value stores #65   Relational DBMS
Website	www.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdb	rdf4j.org	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.tarantool.io
Technical documentation	www.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdb	rdf4j.org/­documentation		www.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
Developer	Alibaba	Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.	Sybase, SAP	VK
Initial release		2004	1993	2008
Current release				2.10.0, May 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.	commercial	Open Source BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java		C and C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux OS X Unix Windows	Linux Windows	BSD Linux macOS
Data scheme	schema-free	yes RDF Schemas	yes	Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	Numeric data and Strings	yes	yes	string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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.	no		no	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	yes	Full-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	Java API RIO RDF Input/Output Sail API SeRQL Sesame RDF Query Language Sesame REST HTTP Protocol SPARQL	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	Open binary protocol
Supported programming languages	Java	Java PHP Python	Delphi Perl PHP	C C# C++ Erlang Go Java JavaScript Lua Perl PHP Python Rust
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes	yes	Lua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggers	no	yes	yes	yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		none	none	Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		none	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Asynchronous replication with multi-master option Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star) Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency	Casual consistency across sharding partitions Eventual consistency within replicaset partition when using asyncronous replication Immediate Consistency within single instance Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition when using Raft
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no		yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID Isolation support depends on the API used	ACID	ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes, cooperative multitasking
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes in-memory storage is supported as well	yes	yes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts Access control	Access managed on TSDB instance level	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Access Control Lists Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise Password based authentication Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise Users and Roles
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	Alibaba Cloud TSDB	RDF4J formerly known as Sesame	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Tarantool
DB-Engines blog posts				Data processing speed and reliability: in-memory synchronous replication 9 November 2021,  Vladimir Perepelytsya, Tarantool (sponsor)  show all
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