DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

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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

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

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	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

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

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2000

2014

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

4.9.0, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

included in appliance

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

Java

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access control via Jena Security

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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