DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Faircom DB vs. SQLite vs. TDengine vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Faircom DB vs. SQLite vs. TDengine vs. Weaviate

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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.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

RDF store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#304	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores
	#136	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

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

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.sqlite.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

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

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

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.tdengine.com

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

FairCom Corporation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2000

1979

2000

2019

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

V12, November 2020

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

3.0, August 2022

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

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

server-less

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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

yes

dynamic column types

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

GraphQL is used as query language

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

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

Sharding

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).

none

yes

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

Eventual 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

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

yes

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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