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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. JaguarDB vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. JaguarDB vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Titan

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
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Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#356  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#290  Overall
#132  Relational DBMS
Score2.96
Rank#103  Overall
#18  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.jaguardb.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDataJaguar, Inc.GoogleOracleAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20142015201420112012
Current release3.3 July 20232.1.12, February 201723.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaScriptJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesoptionalyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
TriggersyesnoUsing read-only observersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationnoneElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infousing MemoryDByes infooff heap cache
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsnoAccess rights for users and rolesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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