DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Greenplum vs. NCache vs. OrientDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Greenplum vs. NCache vs. OrientDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

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

greenplum.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

orientdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.greenplum.org

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Pivotal Software Inc.

Alachisoft

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

SAP

Initial release

2000

2005

2010

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

7.0.0, September 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JDBC
ODBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Java, Javascript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Notifications

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

yes

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