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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Lovefield vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	EventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparison	JanusGraph successor of Titan  Xexclude from comparison	Lovefield  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.	A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017	Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Event Store	Graph DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.19 Rank #173   Overall #1   Event Stores	Score 2.02 Rank #125   Overall #12   Graph DBMS	Score 0.33 Rank #286   Overall #131   Relational DBMS
Website	www.eventstore.com	janusgraph.org	google.github.io/­lovefield	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	developers.eventstore.com	docs.janusgraph.org	github.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
Developer	Event Store Limited	Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius	Google	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2012	2017	2014	1993
Current release	21.2, February 2021	0.6.3, February 2023	2.1.12, February 2017
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source	Open Source Apache 2.0	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Java	JavaScript
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	Linux OS X Unix Windows	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari	Linux Windows
Data scheme		yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date		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	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL		no	SQL-like query language via JavaScript builder pattern	yes
APIs and other access methods		Java API TinkerPop Blueprints TinkerPop Frames TinkerPop Gremlin TinkerPop Rexster		.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages		Clojure Java Python	JavaScript	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures		yes	no	yes
Triggers		yes	Using read-only observers	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		yes depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		yes	none	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods		yes via Faunus, a graph analytics engine	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity		yes Relationships in graphs	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data		ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data		yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent		yes Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast	yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.			yes using MemoryDB	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control		User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	EventStoreDB	JanusGraph successor of Titan	Lovefield	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
Recent citations in the news		Database Deep Dives: JanusGraph 8 August 2019, IBM JanusGraph Picks Up Where TitanDB Left Off 13 January 2017, Datanami From graph db to graph embedding. In 7 simple steps. | by Andy Greatorex 30 July 2020, Towards Data Science Nordstrom Builds Flexible Backend Ops with Kubernetes, Spark and JanusGraph 3 October 2019, The New Stack Compose for JanusGraph arrives on Bluemix 15 September 2017, IBM provided by Google News		SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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