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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RDF4J vs. SQream DB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Wide column store

RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

rdf4j.org

sqream.com

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

Technical documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.sqream.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Microsoft

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

SQream Technologies

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2004

2017

1998

Current release

2022.1.6, December 2022

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions in Python

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

none

Multi-source replication
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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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 rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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