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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Neo4j vs. PouchDB vs. Valentina Server

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRDF storeDocument storeGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score3.62
Rank#83  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseneo4j.compouchdb.comwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseneo4j.com/­docspouchdb.com/­guidesvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Neo4j, Inc.Apache Software FoundationParadigma Software
Initial release20002012200720121999
Current release4.9.0, July 20235.20, May 20247.1.1, June 20195.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaJavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infoUser defined Procedures and FunctionsView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyes infovia event handlerCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infovia event handleryesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes using Neo4j FabricSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena Securityyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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Key customersOver 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Market metricsNeo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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