DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Ehcache vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Ehcache vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. RocksDB

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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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.ehcache.org

www.hawkular.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Community supported by Red Hat

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2000

2009

2014

2013

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JCache

HTTP REST

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

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