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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Quasardb 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.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

Primary database model

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.geomesa.org

quasar.ai

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

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

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

CCRi and others

quasardb

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2000

2014

2009

2018

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

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

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Java
Kotlin
Scala

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

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

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

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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