DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. FileMaker vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. FileMaker vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

RDF store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.85
Rank	#86	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

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

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

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

dgraph.io/docs

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2000

2016

2015

1983

1995

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

8.3.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication
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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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