DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. STSdb

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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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

RDF store

Key-value store

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

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

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

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Cloudflare

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2000

2018

2010

2014

2011

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

atomic operations within a document possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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