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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Blazegraph vs. EsgynDB vs. LokiJS vs. Stardog

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  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.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionIn-memory JavaScript DBMSEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelRDF storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
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Score3.75
Rank#84  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlblazegraph.comwww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwiki.blazegraph.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsBlazegraphEsgynStardog-Union
Initial release20002006201520142010
Current release4.9.0, July 20232.1.5, March 20197.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, JavaJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesnoyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageyesnoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
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
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesJava Stored ProceduresView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersyes infovia event handlernonoyesyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersnoneMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena SecuritySecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles

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