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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. MonetDB vs. Sphinx vs. Tkrzw vs. ToroDB

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkA relational database management system that stores data in columnsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRDF storeRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.75
Rank#84  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.monetdb.orgsphinxsearch.comdbmx.net/­tkrzwgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsMonetDB BVSphinx Technologies Inc.Mikio Hirabayashi8Kdata
Initial release20002004200120202016
Current release4.9.0, July 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.5.1, February 20230.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++C++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in SQL, C, Rnono
Triggersyes infovia event handleryesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tablesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoAccess rights for users and roles

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