DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sequoiadb vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sequoiadb vs. Solr

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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

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#83	Overall
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Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
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Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

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

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

www.sadasengine.com

www.sequoiadb.com

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

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

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

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2000

1989

2006

2013

2006

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.0

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

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

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

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)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

proprietary protocol using JSON

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

JavaScript

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

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

simple password-based access control

yes

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