DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Hypertable vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Hypertable vs. Lovefield vs. RDF4J vs. TerarkDB

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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

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

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

google.github.io/lovefield

rdf4j.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

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

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

rdf4j.org/documentation

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Hypertable Inc.

Google

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2000

2009

2014

2004

2016

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

Java

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)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

C++ API
Thrift

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

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