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

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

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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

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

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	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

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

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

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.sadasengine.com

www.yugabyte.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

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Microsoft

Qdrant

SADAS s.r.l.

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2000

1989

2021

2006

2017

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.0

2.19, September 2023

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

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Rust

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

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

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

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
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

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

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Collection-level replication

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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'

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

yes

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Licensing and pricing models

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