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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. LokiJS vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Spotify

Hypertable Inc.

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2000

2014

2009

2014

2017

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

depending on used data model

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

JavaScript API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

based on RocksDB

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

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Licensing and pricing models

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