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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. STSdb vs. ToroDB

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Name

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

ToroDB 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

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

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

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

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

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

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Circonus LLC.

Microsoft

STS Soft SC

8Kdata

Initial release

2000

2017

2010

2011

2016

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

V12

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

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

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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes, with always 3 replicas available

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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