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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Riak KV vs. TimesTen vs. YottaDB

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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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.bigchaindb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2000

2016

2009

1998

2001

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

yes

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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