DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. DuckDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. DuckDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

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

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

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

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

duckdb.org

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

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

duckdb.org/docs

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Oracle

Initial release

2016

2000

2018

2012

1980

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

1.0.0, June 2024

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

yes

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access control via Jena Security

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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