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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. SQLite vs. Transbase vs. UniData,UniVerse

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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 embeddable, in-process RDBMS

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

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

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

www.sqlite.org

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

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

Technical documentation

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

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transaction Software GmbH

Rocket Software

Initial release

2000

1987

1985

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

dynamic column types

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

yes

ACID

configurable

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

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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