DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

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

Website

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

www.ehcache.org

www.geomesa.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

www.ehcache.org/documentation

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

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

CCRi and others

SAP

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2000

2009

2014

2010

2018

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

5.0.0, May 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JCache

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

depending on storage layer

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

depending on storage layer

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

yes

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