DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. BoltDB vs. Firebird vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. BoltDB vs. Firebird vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

RDF store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.firebirdsql.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Firebird Foundation

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2013

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2014

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

5.0.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

PL/SQL, SQL PL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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