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DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Lovefield vs. Riak TS vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Lovefield vs. Riak TS vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

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

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

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

docs.janusgraph.org

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Google

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2000

2017

2014

2015

2012

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

0.6.3, February 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Java

Java

JavaScript

Erlang

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

yes

no

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.

no

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

no

no

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes, limited

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

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

C

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes

no

Erlang

no

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

no

yes

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

no

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

ACID

no

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

no

no

no

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