DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. CouchDB vs. GeoMesa vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. CouchDB vs. GeoMesa vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

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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.

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

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

Technical documentation

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

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

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

CCRi and others

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2000

2005

2014

2013

2018

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.3.3, December 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Scala

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate 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 single document possible

yes

Atomic execution of operations

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

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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