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DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Postgres-XL vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Postgres-XL vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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 HBaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRDF storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score3.97
Rank#88  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score2.10
Rank#131  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.56
Rank#253  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score19.56
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#327  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlphoenix.apache.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlphoenix.apache.orgwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release200020142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20141987
Current release4.9.0, July 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201910 R1, October 20183.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyes infovia event handlernoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsACIDACID infoMVCCnoyes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena SecurityAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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