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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Bangdb vs. Ehcache vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Website

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

bangdb.com

www.ehcache.org

typedb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.bangdb.com

www.ehcache.org/documentation

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Vaticle

Initial release

2000

2012

2009

2016

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

3.10.0, March 2022

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JCache

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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