DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. ClickHouse vs. FatDB vs. KeyDB vs. Kingbase

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. ClickHouse vs. FatDB vs. KeyDB vs. Kingbase

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the 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 .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

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

clickhouse.com

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.kingbase.com.cn

Technical documentation

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

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.keydb.dev

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Clickhouse Inc.

FatCloud

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Initial release

2000

2016

2012

2019

1999

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

Via inetgration in SQL Server

Standard with numerous extensions

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

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

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#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

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.

Can implement custom security layer via applications

simple password-based access control and ACL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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