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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. EJDB vs. EsgynDB vs. RDFox vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.esgyn.cn

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Softmotions

Esgyn

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2000

2012

2015

2017

2009

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
Java

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

replication via a shared file system

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

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

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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

Roles, resources, and access types

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