DBMS > Cassandra vs. Fauna vs. jBASE vs. RDF4J vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Fauna vs. jBASE vs. RDF4J vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

fauna.com

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

rdf4j.org

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.fauna.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

rdf4j.org/documentation

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Fauna, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2008

2014

1991

2004

2003

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

5.7

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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