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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRDF storeDocument storeDocument storeDocument store
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Score3.75
Rank#84  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.bigchaindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2000201620122010
Current release4.9.0, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
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Implementation languageJavaPythonErlang
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhostedhosted
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyes infovia event handlerCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB Transactionsyesno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena Securityyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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