DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. Virtuoso vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. Virtuoso vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Virtuoso is a multi-model hybrid-RDBMS that supports management of data represented as relational tables and/or property graphs

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Relational DBMS
RDF store
Search engine

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.87
Rank	#94	Overall
	#4	RDF stores

Score	142.50
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	3.87
Rank	#73	Overall
	#13	Document stores
	#4	Graph DBMS
	#2	Native XML DBMS
	#39	Relational DBMS
	#2	RDF stores
	#9	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#361	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.snowflake.com

swaydb.simer.au

virtuoso.openlinksw.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.openlinksw.com/virtuoso

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Simer Plaha

OpenLink Software

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2000

2014

2018

1998

2012

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

7.2.11, September 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

yes

SQL - Standard relational schema
RDF - Quad (S, P, O, G) or Triple (S, P, O)
XML - DTD, XML Schema
DAV - freeform filesystem objects, plus User Defined Types a/k/a Dynamic Extension Type

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92, SQL-200x, SQL-3, SQLX

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
GeoSPARQL
HTTP API
JDBC
Jena RDF API
ODBC
OLE DB
RDF4J API
RESTful HTTP API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SOAP webservices
SPARQL 1.1
WebDAV
XPath
XQuery
XSLT

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Virtuoso PL

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Chain, star, and bi-directional replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Fine-grained Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) in addition to typical coarse-grained Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) according to SQL-standard. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

yes

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