DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Geode vs. Postgres-XL vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Geode vs. Postgres-XL vs. TimesTen

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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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	3.85
Rank	#86	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.99
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.52
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

geode.apache.org

www.postgres-xl.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

geode.apache.org/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2000

2002

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1998

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

1.1, February 2017

10 R1, October 2018

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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 per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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