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

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRDF storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Spatial DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score3.62
Rank#83  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.geomesa.orgswaydb.simer.auterminusdb.com
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsFoundationDBCCRi and othersSimer PlahaDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20002013201420182018
Current release4.9.0, July 20236.2.28, November 20205.0.0, May 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ScalaScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlynonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesin SQL-layer onlynonoyes
Triggersyes infovia event handlernononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingdepending on storage layernoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesdepending on storage layernoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsACIDnoAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena Securitynoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoRole-based access control

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