DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. CouchDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RavenDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. CouchDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RavenDB vs. Rockset

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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.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

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

couchdb.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

ravendb.net

rockset.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

ravendb.net/docs

docs.rockset.com

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

Microsoft

Hibernating Rhinos

Rockset

Initial release

2000

2005

2014

2010

2019

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.3.3, December 2023

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (RQL)

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

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

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

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

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

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Eventual 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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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.

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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