DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Cassandra vs. dBASE vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Cassandra vs. dBASE vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	3.85
Rank	#86	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	103.86
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	11.18
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Website

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

Technical documentation

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

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

dgraph.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Asthon Tate

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

Initial release

2000

2008

1979

2016

2015

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

dBase proprietary IDE

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users and roles

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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