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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. DuckDB vs. GeoMesa vs. GeoSpock vs. SwayDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

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

duckdb.org

www.geomesa.org

geospock.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

duckdb.org/docs

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

CCRi and others

GeoSpock

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2000

2018

2014

2018

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

1.0.0, June 2024

5.0.0, May 2024

2.0, September 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Java, Javascript

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users can be defined per table

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