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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Blazegraph vs. mSQL vs. SiriDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Open Source Time Series DBMS

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

blazegraph.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

siridb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

wiki.blazegraph.com

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Blazegraph

Hughes Technologies

Cesbit

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2000

2006

1994

2017

2009

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

2.1.5, March 2019

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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