DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. EXASOL vs. Hazelcast vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. EXASOL vs. Hazelcast vs. NuoDB

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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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Rank	#34	Overall
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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

www.exasol.com

hazelcast.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

www.exasol.com/resources

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Exasol

Hazelcast

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2000

2008

2013

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

limited edition free

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

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Replicated Map

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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