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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Cassandra vs. RethinkDB vs. RRDtool vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 accessDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRDF storeWide column storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.85
Rank#86  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score103.86
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score2.84
Rank#106  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.14
Rank#124  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlcassandra.apache.orgrethinkdb.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestrethinkdb.com/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Tobias OetikerSimer Plaha
Initial release20002008200919992018
Current release4.9.0, July 20234.1.3, July 20232.4.1, August 20201.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableScala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryNumeric data onlyno
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)nonono
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
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyes infovia event handleryesClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding inforange basednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate 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 operationsAtomic single-document operationsnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena SecurityAccess rights for users can be defined per objectyes infousers and table-level permissionsnono
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