DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Geode vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Postgres-XL vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Geode vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Postgres-XL vs. TimesTen

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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

Widely used in-process key-value store

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

RDF store

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

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

geode.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.postgres-xl.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

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

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

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.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2000

2002

1994

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1998

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

1.1, February 2017

18.1.40, May 2020

10 R1, October 2018

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

yes, on a single node

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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