DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake vs. ToroDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake vs. ToroDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

ToroDB 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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

RDF store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

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

www.jaguardb.com

www.snowflake.com

github.com/torodb/server

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

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

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

DataJaguar, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

8Kdata

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2000

2015

2014

2016

2019

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.3 July 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

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

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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