DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Lovefield vs. Postgres-XL vs. Snowflake vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Lovefield vs. Postgres-XL vs. Snowflake vs. Tkrzw

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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

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

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

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

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

google.github.io/lovefield

www.postgres-xl.org

www.snowflake.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

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

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2000

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2014

2020

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

10 R1, October 2018

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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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

Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

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

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Using read-only observers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

ACID

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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