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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. BoltDB vs. Cassandra vs. Sadas Engine

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseAn embedded key-value store for Go.Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelRDF storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
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Score3.62
Rank#83  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlphoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltcassandra.apache.orgwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlphoenix.apache.orgcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20002014201320082006
Current release4.9.0, July 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20194.1.3, July 20238.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnorestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
JDBCProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
GoC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyes infovia event handlernonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsACIDyesno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena SecurityAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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