DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. FileMaker vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. FileMaker vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. QuestDB

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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.

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.52
Rank	#109	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/google/leveldb

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

questdb.io

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

questdb.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

Microsoft

QuestDB Technology Inc

Initial release

2000

1983

2011

2014

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

PHP

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID for single-table writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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