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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SQLite

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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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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	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

FoundationDB

Oracle

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2000

2013

2007

2000

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

6.2.28, November 2020

14.1, August 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
C++
Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in SQL-layer only

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Eventual 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

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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