DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. ClickHouse vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. ClickHouse vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

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

phoenix.apache.org

clickhouse.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

phoenix.apache.org

clickhouse.com/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Apache Software Foundation

Clickhouse Inc.

IBM

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2000

2014

2016

2017

2011

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

2.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JDBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

key based and custom

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Active-active shard replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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