DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Graphite vs. Riak TS vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Graphite vs. Riak TS vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

RDF store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

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

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Chris Davis

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SiteWhere

Initial release

2000

2006

2015

2010

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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