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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Sadas Engine vs. TimescaleDB

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Description

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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

machbase.com

www.sadasengine.com

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

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

machbase.com/dbms

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Machbase

SADAS s.r.l.

Timescale

Initial release

2000

2013

2006

2017

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

V8.0, August 2023

8.0

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

free test version available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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