DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. FeatureBase vs. RocksDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. FeatureBase vs. RocksDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

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

Technical documentation

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

docs.featurebase.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Facebook, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2000

2017

2013

2006

2001

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

2022, May 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

8.0

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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