DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Snowflake vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Snowflake vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

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

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#84	Overall
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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
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Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

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

kylin.apache.org

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.snowflake.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

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

kylin.apache.org/docs

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2000

2015

2008

2014

1984

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.1.0, July 2020

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

using Google App Engine

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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