DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. HBase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. HBase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

RDF store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

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

hbase.apache.org

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

www.sadasengine.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

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

hbase.apache.org/book.html

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

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2000

2008

1989

2006

2013

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

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

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via event handler

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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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