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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. BigObject vs. OpenSearch

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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, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	5.70
Rank	#72	Overall
	#2	RDF stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#345	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Score	12.61
Rank	#46	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

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

bigobject.io

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.bigobject.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

BigObject, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2000

2015

2021

Current release

4.6.1, September 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

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