DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Bangdb vs. Graph Engine vs. PostgreSQL vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Bangdb vs. Graph Engine vs. PostgreSQL vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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 distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

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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	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	636.25
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Website

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

bangdb.com

www.graphengine.io

www.postgresql.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

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

docs.bangdb.com

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.postgresql.org/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Microsoft

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

TempoIQ

Initial release

2000

2012

2010

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

2012

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

16.3, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

.NET and C

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

.NET

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Realtime Alerts

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

horizontal partitioning

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate 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

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple authentication-based access control

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