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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. JanusGraph vs. Tigris

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#112	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	1.91
Rank	#135	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#388	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#61	Key-value stores
	#25	Search engines
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

janusgraph.org

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

docs.janusgraph.org

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2022

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.

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
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

with encyption-at-rest

yes

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

yes, using FoundationDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Access rights for users and roles

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