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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. MySQL vs. TiDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	4.09
Rank	#72	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.mysql.com

pingcap.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

PingCAP, Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2000

1995

2016

2011

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

9.0.0, July 2024

8.2.0, July 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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Specific characteristics

TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages

- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics

34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing models

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