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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. GraphDB vs. Interbase

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  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 assetsdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelRDF storeDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.62
Rank#83  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#91  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comwww.ontotext.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasegraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsAsthon TateOntotextEmbarcadero
Initial release20002016197920001984
Current release4.9.0, July 2023dBASE 2019, 201910.4, October 2023InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononostored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCyes
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDE.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.well-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilityyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersyes infovia event handlernonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replicationInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoConstraint checkingyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB Transactionsno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena SecurityyesAccess rights for users and rolesDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Apache Jena - TDBBigchainDBdBASEGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMInterbase
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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