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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Citus vs. GeoSpock vs. GridDB

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data
Primary database modelRDF storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.75
Rank#84  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.citusdata.comgeospock.comgriddb.net
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmldocs.citusdata.comdocs.griddb.net
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsGeoSpockToshiba Corporation
Initial release200020102013
Current release4.9.0, July 20238.1, December 20182.0, September 20195.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaCJava, JavascriptC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nono
Triggersyes infovia event handleryesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsACIDnoACID at container level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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Apache Jena - TDBCitusGeoSpockGridDB
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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