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DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Datomic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Datomic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TerminusDB

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRDF storeRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score3.75
Rank#84  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.datomic.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantterminusdb.com
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmldocs.datomic.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsCognitectIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2000201220102018
Current release4.9.0, July 20231.0.6735, June 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureErlangProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaClojure
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction FunctionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyes infovia event handlerBy using transaction functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena SecuritynoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole-based access control

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