DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. HarperDB vs. Kinetica vs. MariaDB vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. HarperDB vs. Kinetica vs. MariaDB vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.harperdb.io

www.kinetica.com

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

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

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.kinetica.com

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

HarperDB

Kinetica

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Oracle

Initial release

2000

2017

2012

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2007

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.1, August 2021

7.1, August 2021

11.3.2, February 2024

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

C, C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

dynamic schema

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data 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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

user defined functions

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

optionally

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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