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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Hypertable vs. Memcached vs. Neo4j

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings
Primary database modelRDF storeRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.87
Rank#94  Overall
#4  RDF stores
Score16.99
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score42.70
Rank#21  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlgeospock.comwww.memcached.orgneo4j.com
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikineo4j.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsGeoSpockHypertable Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalNeo4j, Inc.
Initial release2000200920032007
Current release4.9.0, July 20232.0, September 20190.9.8.11, March 20161.6.29, June 20245.23, August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptC++CJava, Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nonono
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
JDBCC++ API
Thrift
Proprietary protocolBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functions
Triggersyes infovia event handlernononoyes infovia event handler
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingShardingnoneyes using Neo4j Fabric
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor on file system levelnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena SecurityAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)
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Apache Jena - TDBGeoSpockHypertableMemcachedNeo4j
Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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Key customersOver 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Market metricsNeo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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