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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Cubrid vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml 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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

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

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

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

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

rdf4j.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

cubrid.org/manuals

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

informationpartners gmbh

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2000

2008

2004

2015

2018

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

11.0, January 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Java

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Java
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

multiple readers, single writer

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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