DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenTSDB vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenTSDB vs. Qdrant

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Name

Description

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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

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

www.hawkular.org

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

opentsdb.net

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

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

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

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

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Community supported by Red Hat

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Qdrant

Initial release

2000

2014

1989

2011

2021

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

HTTP REST

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

HTTP API
Telnet API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

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

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Collection-level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

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

Key-based authentication

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