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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB 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.

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

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

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

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

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

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

Technical documentation

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

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

sphinxsearch.com/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

CCRi and others

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Simer Plaha

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2000

2014

2001

2018

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

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

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

Scala

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Proprietary protocol

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Java
Kotlin
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

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

yes

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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