DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Widely used in-process key-value store

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	5.93
Rank	#56	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.datastax.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

DataStax

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2000

2011

2012

1994

2000

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

6.8, April 2020

18.1.40, May 2020

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

hosted

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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Key customers

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