DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Lovefield vs. Riak TS vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Lovefield vs. Riak TS vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.41
Rank	#266	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

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

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Google

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2000

2023

2014

2015

1994

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

1.0, March 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

3.0.0, September 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

scheme-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

Using read-only observers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

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

Password-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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