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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. NuoDB vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#15	Vector DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

doc.nuodb.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2000

2010

2015

2013

2015

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.3 July 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Java, SQL

Erlang

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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