DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NuoDB

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/spotify/heroic

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Google

Spotify

Microsoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2000

2010

2014

2016

2013

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

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

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Transact SQL

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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