DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. atoti vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. atoti vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Riak TS

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Description

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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Widely used in-process key-value store

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

Primary database model

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.61
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Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

atoti.io

google.github.io/lovefield

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.atoti.io

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

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

ActiveViam

Google

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2000

2014

1994

2015

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

18.1.40, May 2020

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

Erlang

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Using read-only observers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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