DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Hazelcast vs. JaguarDB vs. MySQL vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Hazelcast vs. JaguarDB vs. MySQL vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Widely used open source RDBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

RDF store

Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

Technical documentation

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

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Hazelcast

DataJaguar, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2000

2008

2015

1995

2017

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

3.3 July 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Role-based access control

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

News

The first On-Device Vector Database: ObjectBox 4.0
16 May 2024

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

Vector Databases for Edge AI
9 August 2023

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