DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. BigchainDB vs. MariaDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. BigchainDB vs. MariaDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.bigchaindb.com

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Percona

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2000

2016

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2008

1993

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

11.3.2, February 2024

8.0.36-28, 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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