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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. GBase vs. JanusGraph vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.gbase.cn

janusgraph.org

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

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.janusgraph.org

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Softmotions

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2004

2017

1994

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

0.6.3, February 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

yes

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

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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