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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Galaxybase vs. MonetDB vs. Postgres-XL

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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 relational database management system that stores data in columns

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

Primary database model

RDF store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

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

galaxybase.com

www.monetdb.org

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

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

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2000

2017

2004

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

Nov 20, November 2021

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

Strong typed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
Python

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined procedures and functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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