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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

RDF store

Key-value store

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	3.85
Rank	#86	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

alasql.org

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

rdf4j.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

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

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

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

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

2000

2004

2018

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

Java
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Access control via Jena Security

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