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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. JanusGraph vs. KairosDB vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

janusgraph.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.janusgraph.org

kairosdb.github.io

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

4D, Inc

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Alex Kashirin

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1984

2017

2013

2020

1999

Current release

v20, April 2023

0.6.3, February 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

0.5, April 2021

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Clojure
Java
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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