DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.gigaspaces.com

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

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Gigaspaces Technologies

Microsoft

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2000

1989

2012

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

15.5, September 2020

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

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

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

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

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

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes, event driven architecture

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

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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