DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. EXASOL vs. GridGain vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

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

Technical documentation

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

www.exasol.com/resources

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.siridb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Exasol

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Cesbit

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2007

2017

2014

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Lua
Python
R

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Security Hooks for custom implementations

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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