DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Hive vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Hive vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	2.52
Rank	#109	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

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

Technical documentation

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

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

questdb.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

QuestDB Technology Inc

Facebook, Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2000

2012

2014

2013

2022

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL with time-series extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID for single-table writes

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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