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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Citus vs. EsgynDB vs. NSDb

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Description

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

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.citusdata.com

www.esgyn.cn

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.citusdata.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Esgyn

Initial release

2000

2010

2015

2017

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

8.1, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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