DBMS > Apache Impala vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

impala.apache.org

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

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

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

graphite.readthedocs.io

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Chris Davis

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

Initial release

2013

2000

2006

2010

2014

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

4.9.0, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Python

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Unix

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

HTTP API
Sockets

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

atomic operations within a document possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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