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Name

Description

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

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

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

www.couchbase.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

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

docs.couchbase.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Couchbase, Inc.

Microsoft

Rocket Software

Initial release

2000

2011

2012

1985

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

RESTful HTTP API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

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

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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