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DBMS > Heroic vs. IBM Db2 vs. JanusGraph vs. jBASE vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IBM Db2 vs. JanusGraph vs. jBASE vs. PouchDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBGraph DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
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Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2janusgraph.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasepouchdb.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.janusgraph.orgdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9pouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperSpotifyIBMLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20141983 infohost version201719912012
Current release12.1, October 20160.6.3, February 20235.77.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptionalno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)ShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yesyesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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