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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Infobright vs. Ingres vs. Oracle

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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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Well established RDBMS

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

Score	2.87
Rank	#94	Overall
	#4	RDF stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#29	Key-value stores
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#201	Overall
	#96	Relational DBMS

Score	3.47
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	1317.01
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/apple/foundationdb

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

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

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

FoundationDB

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Actian Corporation

Oracle

Initial release

2000

2013

2005

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1980

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

6.2.28, November 2020

12.0, July 2024

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in SQL-layer only

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Ingres Replicator

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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