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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. DolphinDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. Lovefield

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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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational 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	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.dolphindb.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

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

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

DolphinDB, Inc

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Google

Initial release

2000

2018

2010

2014

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

yes

atomic operations within a document possible

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Administrators, Users, Groups

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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