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DBMS > Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. SQL.JS vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. SQL.JS vs. Titan

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
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.
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesPort of SQLite to JavaScriptTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicjsqldb.org (offline)sql.js.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperSpotifyKonrad von BackstromAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2014201820122012
Current release0.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaScriptClojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnofunctions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDBno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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