DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. dBASE vs. EsgynDB vs. PlanetScale vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. dBASE vs. EsgynDB vs. PlanetScale 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

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

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Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

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

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#155	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

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

Website

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

Technical documentation

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

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

planetscale.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Asthon Tate

Esgyn

PlanetScale

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2000

1979

2015

2020

2013

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

dBase proprietary IDE

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Java Stored Procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID

ACID at shard level

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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