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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Spark SQL vs. SurrealDB 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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

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

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.62
Rank	#83	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

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

spark.apache.org/sql

surrealdb.com

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

Technical documentation

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

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

surrealdb.com/docs

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Apache Software Foundation

SurrealDB Ltd

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2000

2014

2022

1987

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Python
R
Scala

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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