DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RavenDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RavenDB vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

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

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

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

ravendb.net

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

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

docs.heavy.ai

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

ravendb.net/docs

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Microsoft

Hibernating Rhinos

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2000

2016

1989

2010

2016

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

5.10, January 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

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

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

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

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

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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