DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenEdge

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Name

Description

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

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

RDF store

Wide column store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	5.80
Rank	#60	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

www.marklogic.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

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

docs.datastax.com

docs.marklogic.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

DataStax

MarkLogic Corp.

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2000

2011

2001

1989

1984

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

6.8, April 2020

11.0, December 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

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

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

yes

SQL92

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency

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

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

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

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

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