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DBMS > JSqlDb vs. LevelDB vs. RDF4J vs. Riak KV vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. LevelDB vs. RDF4J vs. Riak KV vs. Titan

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NameJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  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.
DescriptionJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Key-value storeRDF storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitejsqldb.org (offline)github.com/­google/­leveldbrdf4j.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperKonrad von BackstromGoogleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20182011200420092012
Current release0.8, December 20181.23, February 20213.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnoyes
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 indexesnonoyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Java
PHP
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresfunctions in JavaScriptnoyesErlangyes
Triggersnonoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"yes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing RocksDByes infowith automatic compression on writesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes, using Riak SecurityUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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