DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Newts vs. TinkerGraph vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Newts vs. TinkerGraph vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

opennms.github.io/newts

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

OpenNMS Group

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2012

2000

2014

2009

2014

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

HTTP REST
Java API

TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

Groovy
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

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

optional

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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