DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Citus vs. GBase vs. TimesTen vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Citus vs. GBase vs. TimesTen 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

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.citusdata.com

www.gbase.cn

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.citusdata.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Yanza

Initial release

2000

2010

2004

1998

2015

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

8.1, December 2018

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

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

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

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.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

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
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

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

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate 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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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