DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Titan

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Name

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

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.

Description

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

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

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	32.67
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

jsqldb.org (offline)

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

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Amazon

Konrad von Backstrom

SAP, Sybase

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2012

2018

1987

2012

Current release

0.8, December 2018

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

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

using RocksDB

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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