DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. H2GIS vs. InfinityDB vs. Memcached vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. H2GIS vs. InfinityDB vs. Memcached 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

Spatial extension of H2

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

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

Primary database model

RDF store

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

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

Website

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

Technical documentation

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

CNRS

Boiler Bay Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2000

2013

2002

2003

2013

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

4.0

1.6.27, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on H2

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

based on H2

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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