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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Faircom DB vs. QuestDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

RDF store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#314	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

questdb.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

questdb.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

FairCom Corporation

QuestDB Technology Inc

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2000

1979

2014

2011

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

V13, July 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID for single-table writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

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