DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Datomic vs. Heroic vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Datomic vs. Heroic vs. SQLite

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Name

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Description

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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.datomic.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.datomic.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Atos Convergence Creators

Cognitect

Spotify

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2000

2016

2012

2014

2000

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

1703

1.0.7075, December 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

LDAP

RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

Clojure
Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

LDAP bind authentication

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