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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Fauna vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

fauna.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

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

docs.fauna.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Fauna, Inc.

Google

Mireo

Initial release

2000

2014

2017

2020

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

RESTful HTTP API

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

yes

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