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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. EJDB vs. Newts vs. Riak KV vs. Transbase

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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)

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

opennms.github.io/newts

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Softmotions

OpenNMS Group

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2000

2012

2014

2009

1987

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

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

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Java

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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