DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Riak TS vs. SQLite vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Riak TS vs. SQLite 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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

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

Primary database model

RDF store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.sqlite.org

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

Technical documentation

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2000

2015

2000

1987

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

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

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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