DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenSearch vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenSearch vs. TiDB

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	4.66
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

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

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

pingcap.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

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

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2000

2013

1989

2021

2016

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

8.1.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages

Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customers

InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics

Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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