DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. openGemini

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. openGemini

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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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

Technical documentation

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.opengemini.org/guide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

Huawei and openGemini community

Initial release

2000

2010

2014

2012

2022

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

1.1, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

atomic operations within a document possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Administrators and common users accounts

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