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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JanusGraph vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SwayDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

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

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

janusgraph.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.janusgraph.org

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Sybase, SAP

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2010

2017

1993

2018

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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