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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Lovefield vs. PouchDB vs. RDF4J vs. TerarkDB

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.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 modelRDF storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRDF storeKey-value store
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Score3.62
Rank#83  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldpouchdb.comrdf4j.orggithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdpouchdb.com/­guidesrdf4j.org/­documentationbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsGoogleApache Software FoundationSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20002014201220042016
Current release4.9.0, July 20232.1.12, February 20177.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptJavaScriptJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safariserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnonono
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaScriptJavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersyes infovia event handlerUsing read-only observersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDByesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena Securitynononono

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