DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2 vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2 vs. SQLite

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Name

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.

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.dolphindb.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.h2database.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

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

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

DolphinDB, Inc

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Thomas Mueller

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2000

2018

2012

2005

2000

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

2.2.220, July 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

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

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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