DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Prometheus vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Prometheus vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#100	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	7.56
Rank	#49	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.mcobject.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

prometheus.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

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

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

prometheus.io/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

McObject

Microsoft

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2000

2001

2014

2015

1992

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

8.2, 2021

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

Numeric data only

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Import of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

by defining events

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

by Federation

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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