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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. OceanBase vs. Oracle vs. TigerGraph 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

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Widely used RDBMS

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

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

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.57
Rank	#149	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

en.oceanbase.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.tigergraph.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.tigergraph.com

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Oracle

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2000

2010

1980

2017

2011

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

4.3.0, April 2024

23c, September 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C++
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

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 (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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