DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ScyllaDB

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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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

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

kylin.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

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

kylin.apache.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Microsoft

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2000

2015

1989

2015

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.1.0, July 2020

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

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

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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