DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Firebird vs. GridDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Firebird vs. GridDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

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

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.firebirdsql.org

griddb.net

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

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

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.griddb.net

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Firebird Foundation

Toshiba Corporation

Microsoft

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2013

1992

1989

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

5.0.0, January 2024

5.1, August 2022

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

ACID at container level

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users can be defined per database

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Licensing and pricing models

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