DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Heroic vs. OpenQM vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Heroic vs. OpenQM vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Snowflake

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Spotify

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Sybase, SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2014

1993

2014

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

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

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

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate 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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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