DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. ClickHouse vs. NSDb vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. ClickHouse vs. NSDb vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

clickhouse.com

nsdb.io

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

clickhouse.com/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Clickhouse Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2012

2000

2016

2017

2001

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

Java
Scala

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

key based and custom

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

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