DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP HANA vs. ScyllaDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP HANA vs. ScyllaDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

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

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

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.scylladb.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

help.sap.com/hana

docs.scylladb.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SAP

ScyllaDB

Rocket Software

Initial release

2000

1984

2010

2015

1985

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

HP Open VMS

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Java

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes, Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

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

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

yes, on a single node

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

configurable

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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