DBMS > Apache Jena - TDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster vs. Trafodion vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster vs. Trafodion vs. YDB

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Name

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Description

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

RDF store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.91
Rank	#93	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#269	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#126	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

trafodion.apache.org

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

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

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Alessandro Furieri

Teradata

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Yandex

Initial release

2000

2008

2005

2014

2019

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

R packages

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

yes, via HBase

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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