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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Kuzu vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

An embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalability

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#402	Overall
	#41	Graph DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

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

Technical documentation

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

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.kuzudb.com

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

CCRi and others

SADAS s.r.l.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2000

2014

2022

2006

2001

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

0.4.2, May 2024

8.0

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT license

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

CLI Client
Cypher Query Language

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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