DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. GeoMesa vs. OpenSearch vs. Prometheus vs. SwayDB

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

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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 distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.geomesa.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

prometheus.io

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

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

opensearch.org/docs/latest

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

CCRi and others

Amazon Web Services

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2000

2014

2021

2015

2018

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

2.5.0, 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

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

yes

by Federation

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

Atomic execution of operations

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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