DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. GBase vs. OrigoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. GBase vs. OrigoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. RDFox

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Website

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

www.gbase.cn

origodb.com

www.postgres-xl.org

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

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

origodb.com/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Robert Friberg et al

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2000

2004

2009

under the name LiveDB

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2017

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

10 R1, October 2018

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

RDF schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

yes

can be achieved using .NET

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

yes

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Roles, resources, and access types

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