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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. SpatiaLite vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

In-memory caching system

Spatial extension of SQLite

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

cachelot.io

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Alessandro Furieri

8Kdata

Initial release

1984

2000

2015

2008

2016

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.9.0, July 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

server-less

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Memcached protocol

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

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

none

Eventual 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

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

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users and roles

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