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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.claris.com/filemaker

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/database

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

acquired by Google 2014

SAP

Initial release

2000

1983

2012

2010

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

PHP

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

yes

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

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