DBMS > Graph Engine vs. Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. OpenSearch vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. OpenSearch vs. SwayDB

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Name

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

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.graphengine.io

github.com/spotify/heroic

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

spotify.github.io/heroic

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Microsoft

Spotify

Konrad von Backstrom

Amazon Web Services

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2010

2014

2018

2021

2018

Current release

0.8, December 2018

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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