DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Cassandra vs. Microsoft Access vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Cassandra vs. Microsoft Access vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

RDF store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

cassandra.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Microsoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2000

2008

1992

2000

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

server-less

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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