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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

RDF 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	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Splice Machine

Initial release

2000

1984

1989

2014

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

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

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

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

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Interbase Change Views

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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

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