DBMS > Ehcache vs. JSqlDb vs. RDF4J vs. Sequoiadb vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. JSqlDb vs. RDF4J vs. Sequoiadb 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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

RDF store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ehcache.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

rdf4j.org

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Konrad von Backstrom

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2009

2018

2004

2013

2012

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JCache

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

proprietary protocol using JSON

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

yes

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

Source-replica replication

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

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual 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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

using RocksDB

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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