DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. BigObject vs. NebulaGraph vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. BigObject vs. NebulaGraph vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

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

bigobject.io

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

siridb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.bigobject.io

docs.nebula-graph.io

docs.siridb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

BigObject, Inc.

Vesoft Inc.

Cesbit

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2015

2019

2017

2014

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

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

Role-based access control

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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