DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.85
Rank	#86	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	2.18
Rank	#122	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.enterprisedb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

EnterpriseDB

SAP

formerly Sybase

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2000

2005

2010

1992

2012

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

14, December 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

SQLScript, R

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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