DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Axibase vs. Badger vs. HEAVY.AI vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Axibase vs. Badger vs. HEAVY.AI vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

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

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

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

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.heavy.ai

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Axibase Corporation

DGraph Labs

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2000

2013

2017

2016

1995

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

15585

5.10, January 2022

8.3.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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