DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Drizzle vs. KairosDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. MariaDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Drizzle vs. KairosDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. MariaDB

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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.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

machbase.com

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

Technical documentation

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

kairosdb.github.io

machbase.com/dbms

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Machbase

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Initial release

2000

2008

2013

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

1.2.2, November 2018

V8.0, August 2023

11.3.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

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

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JDBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

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

based on Cassandra

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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