DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

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

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

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

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Elastic

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2000

2010

2016

2013

2001

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

8.6, January 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

yes

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