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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Derby vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

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

db.apache.org/derby

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

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

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Apache Software Foundation

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2000

1997

2009

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

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