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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Dgraph vs. Dragonfly vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceFully managed big data interactive analytics platform
Primary database modelRDF storeGraph DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS infocolumn oriented
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoIf a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store infothis is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infosupport for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.75
Rank#84  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmldgraph.iogithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
azure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmldgraph.io/­docswww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsDgraph Labs, Inc.DragonflyDB team and community contributorsMicrosoft
Initial release2000201620232019
Current release4.9.0, July 20231.0, March 2023cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freescheme-freeFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolMicrosoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoLuaYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R
Triggersyes infovia event handlernopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena Securityno infoPlanned for future releasesPassword-based authenticationAzure Active Directory Authentication

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