DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Cassandra vs. GridDB vs. RRDtool vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Cassandra vs. GridDB vs. RRDtool vs. TimescaleDB

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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

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

RDF store

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

cassandra.apache.org

griddb.net

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

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

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.griddb.net

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Toshiba Corporation

Tobias Oetiker

Timescale

Initial release

2000

2008

2013

1999

2017

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

5.1, August 2022

1.8.0, 2022

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

Numeric data only

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

yes

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)

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

in-process shared library
Pipes

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

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

none

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

ACID at container level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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