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

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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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

bigobject.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.bigobject.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

BigObject, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2000

2015

2013

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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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

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

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

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

yes

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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