In between TDB and Fuseki is ARQ, which is Jena's SPARQL implementation. https://jena.apache.org/documentation/query/index.html
ARQ can be used with a variety of backends, including in-memory systems and on-disk databases like TDB. Fuseki is mostly responsible for HTTP management and handing queries and updates to ARQ. It is ARQ that talks to TDB. --- A. Soroka The University of Virginia Library > On Mar 4, 2017, at 10:10 AM, Laura Morales <laure...@mail.com> wrote: > > OK if I get this right, TDB is the actual database storing all > triples/n-quads, and Fuseki is a layer on top of it whose purpose is to parse > SPARQL queries and retrieve triples from TDB. > > Right? > > >> Fuseki is not a database. It is a SPARQL server. Jena TDB is the usual >> database used with Fuseki. Using Fuseki without Jena is nonsensical. Fuseki >> is totally based on Jena. >> >> https://jena.apache.org/documentation/index.html