DBMS > JSqlDb vs. OpenSearch vs. RDF4J vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. OpenSearch vs. RDF4J vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. STSdb

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Name

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

Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Amazon Web Services

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

SAP

formerly Sybase

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2018

2021

2004

1992

2011

Current release

0.8, December 2018

2.5.0, January 2023

17, July 2015

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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