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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Heroic vs. JanusGraph vs. Kingbase

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Name

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

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/spotify/heroic

janusgraph.org

www.kingbase.com.cn

Technical documentation

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.janusgraph.org

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Spotify

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Initial release

2000

2014

2017

1999

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

0.6.3, February 2023

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
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

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

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

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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