DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. GeoMesa vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. GeoMesa vs. SiteWhere

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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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

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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	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#367	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

www.geomesa.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

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

dgraph.io/docs

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

CCRi and others

SiteWhere

Initial release

2000

2016

2015

2014

2010

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

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.

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

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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