DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. dBASE vs. JSqlDb vs. OpenSearch vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. dBASE vs. JSqlDb vs. OpenSearch vs. Splice Machine

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Name

JSqlDB 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

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

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Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.dbase.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

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

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

opensearch.org/docs/latest

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Asthon Tate

Konrad von Backstrom

Amazon Web Services

Splice Machine

Initial release

2000

1979

2018

2021

2014

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

0.8, December 2018

2.5.0, January 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

dBase proprietary IDE

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

functions in JavaScript

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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