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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Fauna vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL

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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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational 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	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

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

fauna.com

google.github.io/lovefield

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

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

docs.fauna.com

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Fauna, Inc.

Google

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2000

2014

1994

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

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

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