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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Drizzle vs. Faircom EDGE vs. mSQL

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#370	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

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

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

FairCom Corporation

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2000

2008

1979

1994

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

V3, October 2020

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

ANSI SQL queries

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JDBC

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

via event handler

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

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