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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. QuestDB vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#345	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Website

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

questdb.io

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

questdb.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Microsoft

QuestDB Technology Inc

Initial release

2000

2014

2009

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

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

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

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

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via event handler

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

none

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID for single-table writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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