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

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series 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	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

ravendb.net

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

ravendb.net/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

IBM

Hibernating Rhinos

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2013

2014

2010

2014

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

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

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

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

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

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

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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

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