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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Splunk vs. Transbase

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Name

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

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

www.splunk.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

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

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Splunk Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1984

2000

2003

1987

Current release

v20, April 2023

4.9.0, July 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

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

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

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

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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