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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. H2

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Name

Description

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

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Primary database model

RDF store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.h2database.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

FairCom Corporation

Google

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

2000

1979

2017

2005

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

V3, October 2020

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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