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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak TS vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

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

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

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

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

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

www.enterprisedb.com

objectbox.io

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

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

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

docs.objectbox.io

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

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

EnterpriseDB

ObjectBox Limited

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2000

2005

2017

2015

2010

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

14, December 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes, limited

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

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

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Erlang

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

relationships in graphs

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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