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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. MongoDB vs. RDFox

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Name

Description

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

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

RDF store

Document store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.18
Rank	#80	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	431.42
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	0.42
Rank	#298	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Website

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

www.mongodb.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

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

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

MongoDB, Inc

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2000

2009

2017

Current release

4.6.1, September 2022

6.0.7, June 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

commercial

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
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

RDF schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users and roles

Roles, resources, and access types

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

AI-enriched intelligent apps (Continental, Telefonica, Iron Mountain) Internet of...
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Key customers

ADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Market metrics

Hundreds of millions downloads, over 150,000+ Atlas clusters provisioned every month...
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Licensing and pricing models

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