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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. EsgynDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

Description

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

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

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

www.esgyn.cn

www.mcobject.com

www.geomesa.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

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

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Esgyn

McObject

CCRi and others

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2000

2015

2001

2014

2010

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

8.2, 2021

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C and C++

Scala

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Optimistic locking

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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