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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Newts vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

RDF store

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

cloud.google.com/bigtable

opennms.github.io/newts

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Google

OpenNMS Group

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2000

2015

2014

2013

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

HTTP REST
Java API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

Atomic single-row operations

yes

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 for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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