DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SpaceTime

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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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational 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	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

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

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

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

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

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

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Alibaba

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Microsoft

Percona

Mireo

Initial release

2016

2000

1989

2015

2020

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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)

proprietary protocol using JSON

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

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

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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
Immediate Consistency

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.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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