DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Cassandra vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Stardog vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Cassandra vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Stardog vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

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

cassandra.apache.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.stardog.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Oracle

Stardog-Union

Yanza

Initial release

2000

2008

2007

2010

2015

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

14.1, August 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Live Events

yes

via event handlers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

none

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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