DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. IRONdb vs. Manticore Search vs. RDF4J vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. IRONdb vs. Manticore Search vs. RDF4J vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

manticoresearch.com

rdf4j.org

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

manual.manticoresearch.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Circonus LLC.

Manticore Software

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

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2000

2017

2004

2013

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

simple password-based access control

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