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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. OpenQM vs. Sphinx vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

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

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

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

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

8Kdata

Initial release

2000

1993

2001

2016

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.4-12

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

with some exceptions

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

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