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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Cubrid vs. GeoMesa

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Name

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Primary database model

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

www.bigchaindb.com

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.geomesa.org

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cubrid.org/manuals

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

CCRi and others

Initial release

2000

2016

2008

2014

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

11.0, January 2021

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C, C++, Java

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

depending on storage layer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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