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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Sphinx vs. Tkrzw vs. ToroDB vs. Vitess

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRDF storeSearch engineKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.75
Rank#84  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.comdbmx.net/­tkrzwgithub.com/­torodb/­servervitess.io
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsSphinx Technologies Inc.Mikio Hirabayashi8KdataThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20002001202020162013
Current release4.9.0, July 20233.5.1, February 20230.9.3, August 202015.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++JavaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java 7 VMDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes infovia event handlernononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsnonoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing specific database classesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena SecuritynonoAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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