DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. FatDB vs. Kingbase vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. FatDB vs. Kingbase vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.44
Rank	#258	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

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

www.kingbase.com.cn

tempoiq.com (offline)

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

FatCloud

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

TempoIQ

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2000

2012

1999

2012

2018

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

V8.0, August 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

via applications

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple authentication-based access control

Role-based access control

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