DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA

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Name

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

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
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	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.bigchaindb.com

www.dbase.com

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Asthon Tate

SAP

Initial release

2000

2016

1979

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2010

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

10 R1, October 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

none

yes

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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