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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. JSqlDb vs. PlanetScale vs. RDF4J vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. JSqlDb vs. PlanetScale vs. RDF4J vs. SQL.JS

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Name

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

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

planetscale.com

Technical documentation

planetscale.com/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Esgyn

Konrad von Backstrom

PlanetScale

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

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2015

2018

2020

2004

2012

Current release

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

yes

no

no

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Go

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

no

yes

yes

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.

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

no

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

no

yes

with proprietary extensions

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

functions in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

no

Triggers

no

no

yes

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

no

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at shard level

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

using RocksDB

yes

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

no

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

no

no

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