DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. FoundationDB vs. GeoMesa vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. FoundationDB vs. GeoMesa vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

Description

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

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

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

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.geomesa.org

rocksdb.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

apple.github.io/foundationdb

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

FoundationDB

CCRi and others

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2000

2013

2014

2013

2018

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

6.2.28, November 2020

5.0.0, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

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

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in SQL-layer only

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

yes

Atomic execution of operations

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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