DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. BoltDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. mSQL vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. BoltDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. mSQL vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Cloud-based data warehousing service

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

RDF store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

IBM

Hughes Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2013

2014

1994

2014

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL, SQL PL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

yes

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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