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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. IRONdb vs. Milvus vs. NSDb vs. TinkerGraph

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRDF storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score3.62
Rank#83  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/milvus.ionsdb.iotinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsCirconus LLC.
Initial release20002017201920172009
Current release4.9.0, July 2023V0.10.20, January 20182.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++, GoJava, ScalaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsVector, Numeric and Stringyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in Luanonono
Triggersyes infovia event handlernonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB Transactionsnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena SecuritynoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
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