DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. MySQL

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

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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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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 open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

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

www.esgyn.cn

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

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

firebase.google.com/docs/database

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Esgyn

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2016

2000

2015

2012

1995

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

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.

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

proprietary syntax

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, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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