DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. ClickHouse vs. CouchDB vs. QuestDB vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. ClickHouse vs. CouchDB vs. QuestDB vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	7.46
Rank	#51	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

clickhouse.com

couchdb.apache.org

questdb.io

Technical documentation

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

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

questdb.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Clickhouse Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

QuestDB Technology Inc

Teradata

Initial release

2000

2016

2005

2014

2005

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

3.3.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

R packages

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID for single-table writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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