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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. EJDB vs. MarkLogic vs. SpaceTime

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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)

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.progress.com/marklogic

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

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

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

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Softmotions

MarkLogic Corp.

Mireo

Initial release

2000

2012

2001

2020

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

11.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

in-process shared library

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

yes

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