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DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Drizzle vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Drizzle vs. GeoMesa vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. TerminusDB

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRDF storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score3.75
Rank#84  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.geomesa.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtableterminusdb.com
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCCRi and othersGoogleDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20002008201420152018
Current release4.9.0, July 20237.2.4, September 20124.0.5, February 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++ScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
JDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Java
PHP
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes
Triggersyes infovia event handlerno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingdepending on storage layerShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
depending on storage layerInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsACIDnoAtomic single-row operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena SecurityPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Role-based access control

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