DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NebulaGraph

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NebulaGraph

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Name

Description

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

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Primary database model

RDF store

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Website

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

manticoresearch.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

Technical documentation

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

manual.manticoresearch.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.nebula-graph.io

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Manticore Software

Microsoft

Vesoft Inc.

Initial release

2000

2017

2014

2019

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

Fixed schema

schema-free

Strong typed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

JSON types

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

Supported programming languages

Java

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

using RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role-based access control

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