DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Fauna vs. gStore vs. Lovefield vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Fauna vs. gStore vs. Lovefield vs. Riak TS

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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.

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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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	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

fauna.com

en.gstore.cn

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

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

docs.fauna.com

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Fauna, Inc.

Google

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2000

2014

2016

2014

2015

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

1.2, November 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

JavaScript

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Using read-only observers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

selectable replication factor

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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