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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. NCache vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

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.

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

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

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Google

Alachisoft

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2000

2017

2005

2018

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

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

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

yes

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Atomic execution of operations

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. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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