DBMS > JanusGraph vs. OpenQM vs. PouchDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. OpenQM vs. PouchDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

janusgraph.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

pouchdb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.janusgraph.org

pouchdb.com/guides

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Apache Software Foundation

SAP, Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2017

1993

2012

1987

2000

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

3.4-12

7.1.1, June 2019

16.0

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java
Python

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

JavaScript

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

yes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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