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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Databricks vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelRDF storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
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Score3.62
Rank#83  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.databricks.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoreazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmldocs.databricks.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsDatabricksGoogleMicrosoft
Initial release2000201320172016
Current release4.9.0, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedhostedhosted
Data schemeyes infoRDF SchemasFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith Databricks SQLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaPython
R
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions and aggregatesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsTransact SQL
Triggersyes infovia event handleryes, with Cloud Functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena SecurityAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.yes
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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