DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Brytlyt vs. GeoMesa vs. JaguarDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Brytlyt vs. GeoMesa vs. JaguarDB vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

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

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

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

Technical documentation

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

docs.brytlyt.io

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Brytlyt

CCRi and others

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2000

2016

2014

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

5.0, August 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

3.3 July 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and CUDA

Scala

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

MVCC

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.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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