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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. BigObject vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Memcached vs. QuestDB

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRDF storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.75
Rank#84  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlbigobject.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.memcached.orgquestdb.io
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmldocs.bigobject.iowww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsBigObject, Inc.IBMDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20002015201720032014
Current release4.9.0, July 20232.01.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0commercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++CJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyesyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuayesnono
Triggersyes infovia event handlernononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneActive-active shard replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsnononoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)No - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storagenoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena Securitynofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol
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Apache Jena - TDBBigObjectIBM Db2 Event StoreMemcachedQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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