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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Galaxybase vs. JanusGraph vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

RDF store

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

galaxybase.com

janusgraph.org

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.janusgraph.org

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Initial release

2000

2017

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

Nov 20, November 2021

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined procedures and functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

Using Apache Lucene

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

Role-based access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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