DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Qdrant vs. Sadas Engine vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Qdrant vs. Sadas Engine vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
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Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

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

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

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.sadasengine.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

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

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

qdrant.tech/documentation

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Microsoft

Qdrant

SADAS s.r.l.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2000

1989

2021

2006

2001

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

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

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Collection-level replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable 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

optimistic locking

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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