DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. SAP HANA vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. SAP HANA vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

quasar.ai

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

doc.quasar.ai/master

help.sap.com/hana

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Microsoft

quasardb

SAP

SiteWhere

Initial release

2000

2015

2009

2010

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop 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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

yes

using Azure authentication

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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