DBMS > AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. JanusGraph vs. JSqlDb

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. JanusGraph vs. JSqlDb

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

janusgraph.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.janusgraph.org

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2016

2014

2012

2017

2018

Current release

2.1, December 2018

0.6.3, February 2023

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

yes

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

Sharding

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

using RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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