DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Cassandra vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Cassandra vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splice Machine

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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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

cassandra.apache.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Konrad von Backstrom

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splice Machine

Initial release

2016

2008

2018

1992

2014

Current release

2.1, December 2018

4.1.3, July 2023

0.8, December 2018

17, July 2015

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Proprietary protocol

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

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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