DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Firebolt vs. Realm vs. RocksDB vs. Solr

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

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Name

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

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

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.62
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Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

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

Technical documentation

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

docs.firebolt.io

realm.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2000

2020

2014

2013

2006

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Change Listeners

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

yes

optimistic locking

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

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