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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. JaguarDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#14	Vector DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.jaguardb.com

janusgraph.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.janusgraph.org

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

2017

2014

Current release

2.1, December 2018

3.3 July 2023

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

yes

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

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

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

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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