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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Firebird vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRDF storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score3.62
Rank#83  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlphoenix.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlphoenix.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsApache Software FoundationFirebird FoundationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release200020142000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2010
Current release4.9.0, July 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20195.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++Erlang
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
JDBCADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsPSQLView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyes infovia event handlernoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena SecurityAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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