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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Dgraph vs. FileMaker vs. Sphinx

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRDF storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
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Score3.75
Rank#84  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlblazegraph.comdgraph.iowww.claris.com/­filemakersphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwiki.blazegraph.comdgraph.io/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsBlazegraphDgraph Labs, Inc.Claris infoa subsidiary of AppleSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20002006201619832001
Current release4.9.0, July 20232.1.5, March 201919.4.1, November 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesno
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML format
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languagenoyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
PHPC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyesno
Triggersyes infovia event handlernonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena SecuritySecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)no infoPlanned for future releasessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesno

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