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System Properties Comparison Apache Derby vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Bangdb

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.04
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	2.44
Rank	#101	Overall
	#4	RDF stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#33	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

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

bangdb.com

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

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

docs.bangdb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Initial release

1997

2000

2012

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

4.9.0, July 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD 3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

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

yes, optimistic concurrency control

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access control via Jena Security

yes (enterprise version only)

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