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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Couchbase vs. TDengine vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

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

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.couchbase.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.couchbase.com

docs.tdengine.com

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Couchbase, Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2000

2011

2019

2014

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

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

3.0, August 2022

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

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

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

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

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

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.

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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