DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. ClickHouse vs. HEAVY.AI vs. jBASE vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. ClickHouse vs. HEAVY.AI vs. jBASE vs. YDB

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Name

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 high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

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

clickhouse.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

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

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.heavy.ai

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Clickhouse Inc.

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Yandex

Initial release

2000

2016

1991

2019

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

5.10, January 2022

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language (YQL)

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

Sharding

Round robin

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

yes

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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