DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Geode vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Geode vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

geode.apache.org

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

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

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

geode.apache.org/docs

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

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Microsoft

SiteWhere

Initial release

2000

2002

1989

2010

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

1.1, February 2017

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

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

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

yes, on a single node

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 per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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