DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. KairosDB vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. KairosDB vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	7.57
Rank	#51	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

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

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.snowflake.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

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

kairosdb.github.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2000

2013

2014

2017

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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 (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access control via Jena Security

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role-based access control

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