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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. PostGIS vs. SiriDB vs. TypeDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Open Source Time Series DBMS

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

RDF store

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Website

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

postgis.net

siridb.com

typedb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

docs.siridb.com

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Cesbit

Vaticle

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2000

2005

2017

2016

2009

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

HTTP API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

by using Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

yes

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

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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