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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Geode vs. Neo4j

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Name

Description

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings

Primary database model

RDF store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

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Score	3.02
Rank	#102	Overall
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Score	1.77
Rank	#134	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores

Score	60.14
Rank	#19	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Website

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

geode.apache.org

neo4j.com

Technical documentation

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

geode.apache.org/docs

neo4j.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Neo4j, Inc.

Initial release

2000

2002

2007

Current release

4.3.2, December 2021

1.1, February 2017

4.4.6, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

Can also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

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

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes using Neo4j Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

available in in Enterprise Version only

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

yes, on a single node

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights per client and object definable

Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

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