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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. GeoMesa vs. NSDb vs. TerminusDB

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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.

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

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

www.geomesa.org

nsdb.io

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

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

nsdb.io/Architecture

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

CCRi and others

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2000

2014

2017

2018

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

5.0.1, July 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

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

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java, Scala

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Scala

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Journaling Streams

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

Eventual 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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Role-based access control

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