DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. DolphinDB vs. FatDB vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. DolphinDB vs. FatDB vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

RDF store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

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

www.dolphindb.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

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

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

DolphinDB, Inc

FatCloud

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2000

2018

2012

1999

2014

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Via inetgration in SQL Server

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

via applications

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

yes

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Administrators, Users, Groups

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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