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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

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

pouchdb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

pouchdb.com/guides

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Apache Software Foundation

STS Soft SC

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2000

2012

2011

1987

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

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 REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

C#
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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