DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. BoltDB vs. MaxDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. BoltDB vs. MaxDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

drill.apache.org

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

github.com/boltdb/bolt

maxdb.sap.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

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

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2000

2013

1984

2013

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

4.9.0, July 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++

Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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