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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB

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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

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

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Score	3.85
Rank	#86	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

rdf4j.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

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

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2000

2010

2004

2018

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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