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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. BaseX vs. mSQL vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

RDF store

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

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

basex.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.basex.org

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

BaseX GmbH

Hughes Technologies

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2000

2007

1994

1998

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

11.2, August 2024

4.4, October 2021

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC
ODBC

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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 on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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