DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. EXASOL vs. PostGIS vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. EXASOL vs. PostGIS vs. SAP HANA vs. SQream DB

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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.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.exasol.com

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sqream.com

Technical documentation

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

www.exasol.com/resources

postgis.net/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Exasol

SAP

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2000

2005

2010

2017

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Lua
Python
R

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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