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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Memcached vs. RDF4J vs. SQream DB

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRDF storeKey-value storeKey-value storeRDF storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.75
Rank#84  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlboilerbay.comwww.memcached.orgrdf4j.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikirdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsBoiler Bay Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SQream Technologies
Initial release20002002200320042017
Current release4.9.0, July 20234.01.6.27, May 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysnoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.no
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Proprietary protocolJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaJava.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesuser defined functions in Python
Triggersyes infovia event handlernonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena Securitynoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno

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