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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. CouchDB vs. EsgynDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Infobright

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Name

Description

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

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Website

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

couchdb.apache.org

www.esgyn.cn

www.geomesa.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

Technical documentation

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

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Apache Software Foundation

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

Esgyn

CCRi and others

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Initial release

2000

2005

2015

2014

2005

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.3.3, December 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++, Java

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

atomic operations within a single document possible

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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