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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Neo4j vs. Prometheus vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRDF storeSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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Score3.62
Rank#83  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score44.89
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.geomesa.orgneo4j.comprometheus.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlneo4j.com/­docsprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsCCRi and othersNeo4j, Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release20002014200720152018
Current release4.9.0, July 20235.0.0, May 20245.20, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaJava, ScalaGoScala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucenenono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsnono
Triggersyes infovia event handlernoyes infovia event handlernono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layeryes using Neo4j FabricShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layerCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsnoACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena Securityyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)nono
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