DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Hazelcast vs. KairosDB vs. MySQL vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Hazelcast vs. KairosDB vs. MySQL vs. SWC-DB

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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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Widely used open source RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	5.72
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

hazelcast.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.mysql.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

kairosdb.github.io

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Hazelcast

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2000

2008

2013

1995

2020

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

9.0.0, July 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

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

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

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

C++

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

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Replicated Map

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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