DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hazelcast vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hazelcast vs. RDFox

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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

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

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

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

cloud.google.com/bigtable

hazelcast.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Google

Hazelcast

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2012

2000

2015

2008

2017

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

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

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

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

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

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

yes

Replicated Map

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

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

Atomic single-row operations

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

Roles, resources, and access types

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