DBMS > AlaSQL vs. JanusGraph vs. Lovefield vs. SAP IQ vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. JanusGraph vs. Lovefield vs. SAP IQ vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

janusgraph.org

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.janusgraph.org

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Google

SAP, formerly Sybase

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2014

2017

2014

1994

2009

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

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, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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