DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite vs. VelocityDB

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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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.sqlite.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

SAP

formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2000

1992

2000

2011

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

4.9.0, July 2023

17, July 2015

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

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
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.Net

Supported programming languages

C++

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

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

via file-system locks

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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