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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. JanusGraph vs. JSqlDb

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Name

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

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

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

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#302	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	1.91
Rank	#135	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Website

alasql.org

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

janusgraph.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

docs.janusgraph.org

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Cambridge Semantics

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2014

2018

2017

2018

Current release

2.3, January 2021

0.6.3, February 2023

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C++
Java
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

yes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not needed in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

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

Access rights for users and roles

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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