DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Quasardb vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Quasardb 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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.mcobject.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

quasar.ai

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

Technical documentation

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

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

McObject

Google

quasardb

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Initial release

2000

2001

2010

2009

1998

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

8.2, 2021

3.14.1, January 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

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

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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