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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Dolt vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#191	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.dolthub.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

DoltHub Inc

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

2018

2012

2014

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

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

CLI Client
HTTP REST

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

ACID

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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