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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Couchbase vs. MySQL

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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

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

RDF store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial 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	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

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

www.couchbase.com

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

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

docs.couchbase.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Couchbase, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2012

2000

2011

1995

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

4.9.0, July 2023

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

8.3.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++

Java

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access control via Jena Security

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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