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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Cassandra vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Prometheus vs. Rockset

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRDF storeWide column storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Relational DBMS
Search engine
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Score3.62
Rank#83  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlcassandra.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeprometheus.iorockset.com
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeprometheus.io/­docsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookIBMRockset
Initial release20002008201720152019
Current release4.9.0, July 20234.1.3, July 20232.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++GoC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlydynamic typing
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infoImport of XML data possibleno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionnonoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnono
Triggersyes infovia event handleryesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleActive-active shard replicationyes infoby Federationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB Transactionsno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena SecurityAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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