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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Milvus vs. STSdb vs. Tarantool

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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.

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.geomesa.org

milvus.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

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

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

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

CCRi and others

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2000

2014

2019

2011

2008

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

2.3.4, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++, Go

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

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

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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