DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Lovefield vs. Memcached vs. Postgres-XL vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Lovefield vs. Memcached vs. Postgres-XL vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.85
Rank	#86	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	20.74
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.52
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Website

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

google.github.io/lovefield

www.memcached.org

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

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

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

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Google

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2000

2014

2003

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2016

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

1.6.25, March 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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