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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Blueflood vs. Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Primary database model

RDF store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

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Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.97
Rank	#92	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Website

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

blueflood.io

cloud.google.com/bigtable

Technical documentation

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

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Rackspace

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

Initial release

2000

2013

2008

2015

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

predefined scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

HTTP REST

JDBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Java
PHP

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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