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DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SQL.JS

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database servicePort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRDF storeWide column storeDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.91
Rank#93  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score24.97
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score0.53
Rank#246  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbsql.js.org
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantlearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsHypertable Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MicrosoftAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20002009201020142012
Current release4.9.0, July 20230.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++ErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
hostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes infoJSON typesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by default
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
C++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIDocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJavaScriptno
Triggersyes infovia event handlernoyesJavaScriptno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyeswith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB Transactionsnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena SecuritynoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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