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

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 simplicityRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRDF storeTime Series DBMSRDF storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.62
Rank#83  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rdf4j.orgwww.sequoiadb.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsCirconus LLC.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Sequoiadb Ltd.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20002017200420132022
Current release4.9.0, July 2023V0.10.20, January 2018v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaC++Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
proprietary protocol using JSONGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in LuayesJavaScript
Triggersyes infovia event handlernoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneSource-replica replication
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 nodesEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena Securitynonosimple password-based access controlyes, based on authentication and database rules

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