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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Badger vs. Firebird vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

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

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

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

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Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#328	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores

Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

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

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.firebirdsql.org

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

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

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

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

DGraph Labs

Firebird Foundation

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2000

2017

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2012

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

5.0.1, August 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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