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NameApache Cassandra  Xexclude from comparisonApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkEnterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.
Primary database modelWide column storeRDF storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
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Score108.21
Rank#11  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score2.44
Rank#101  Overall
#4  RDF stores
Score2.57
Rank#95  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#3  RDF stores
Websitecassandra.apache.orgjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.ontotext.com
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsOntotext
Initial release200820002000
Current release5.0-rc1, July 20244.9.0, July 202310.4, October 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache License, Version 2.0commercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourced
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)nostored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBC
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
Fuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyeswell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibility
Triggersyesyes infovia event handlerno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoConstraint checking
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID infoTDB TransactionsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess control via Jena SecurityDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.
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