DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it 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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

RDF store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

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Score	3.85
Rank	#86	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

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

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Spotify

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2000

2013

2014

2018

2014

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

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