DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

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

www.geomesa.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

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

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

CCRi and others

Microsoft

Transwarp

Initial release

2016

2000

2014

1989

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

depending on storage layer

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

depending on storage layer

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access control via Jena Security

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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