DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. JanusGraph vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. JanusGraph vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

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

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

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

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

janusgraph.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.janusgraph.org

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Konrad von Backstrom

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2016

2012

2017

2018

1987

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

0.8, December 2018

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

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

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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