DBMS > EJDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Titan

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server 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

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Softmotions

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Sybase, SAP

SAP

formerly Sybase

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2012

2009

1993

1992

2012

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Relationships in graph

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

In-memory capabilities

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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