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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. IRONdb vs. OpenTSDB vs. SQLite

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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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

RDF store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

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

opentsdb.net

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

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

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Circonus LLC.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2000

2017

2011

2000

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

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

based on HBase

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

via file-system locks

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

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