DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. PostgreSQL vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. PostgreSQL vs. ScyllaDB

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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

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

Key-value store

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Score	2.66
Rank	#96	Overall
	#4	RDF stores

Score	663.42
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	3.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

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

www.postgresql.org

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.postgresql.org/docs

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2000

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

2015

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

16.4, August 2024

ScyllaDB Open Source 6.2.0, October 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

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

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

yes

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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