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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. JanusGraph vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TimesTen

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Name

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

Description

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

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

janusgraph.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.janusgraph.org

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Softmotions

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2017

2018

2015

1998

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

0.8, December 2018

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

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

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

PL/SQL

Triggers

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

using RocksDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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