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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRDF storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.75
Rank#84  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlbangdb.comblazegraph.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmldocs.bangdb.comwiki.blazegraph.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsSachin Sinha, BangDBBlazegraphSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2000201220062001
Current release4.9.0, July 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20212.1.5, March 20193.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes infoRDF literal typesno
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 indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesno
Triggersyes infovia event handleryes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena Securityyes (enterprise version only)Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)no

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