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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SiteWhere vs. Sphinx

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRDF storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.62
Rank#83  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlcloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsGoogleSiteWhereSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2000201520102001
Current release4.9.0, July 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyes infovia event handlernono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsAtomic single-row operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena SecurityAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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