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System Properties Comparison Apache Derby vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. RDF4J

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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

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

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Score	3.04
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	2.44
Rank	#101	Overall
	#4	RDF stores

Score	0.68
Rank	#223	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

db.apache.org/derby

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

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

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

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

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

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

Initial release

1997

2000

2004

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

4.9.0, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

RDF Schemas

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

Java

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java 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

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access control via Jena Security

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