DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Faircom DB vs. NebulaGraph vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Faircom DB vs. NebulaGraph vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

RDF store

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.39
Rank	#274	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#304	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores
	#136	Relational DBMS

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

docs.nebula-graph.io

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Cloudflare

FairCom Corporation

Vesoft Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2000

2018

1979

2019

2000

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

V12, November 2020

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

Strong typed schema

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

using RocksDB

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 with additional protections for files

Role-based access control

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