DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. BigchainDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. BigchainDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ

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Name

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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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.bigchaindb.com

boilerbay.com

www.snowflake.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Boiler Bay Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2000

2016

2002

2014

2012

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

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

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

simple authentication-based access control

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