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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Axibase vs. Firebird vs. Sphinx

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRDF storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
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Score3.75
Rank#84  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.firebirdsql.orgsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsAxibase CorporationFirebird FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release200020132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2001
Current release4.9.0, July 2023155855.0.0, January 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesno
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.no
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesPSQLno
Triggersyes infovia event handleryesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena SecurityUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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