DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Firebolt vs. Realm vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Firebolt vs. Realm vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB

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Description

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

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

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Website

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

www.firebolt.io

realm.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.firebolt.io

realm.io/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2000

2020

2014

2009

2013

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Erlang

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Change Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

yes

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

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

yes

yes, using Riak Security

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