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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. BigObject vs. Newts vs. SQL.JS

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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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

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

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

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

docs.bigobject.io

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

BigObject, Inc.

OpenNMS Group

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2000

2015

2014

2012

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 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Java

Java

JavaScript

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
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

yes

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.

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

no

SQL

Support of SQL

no

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

no

no

Triggers

yes

via event handler

no

no

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

no

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

no

no

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

no

no

no

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