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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. JanusGraph vs. SiriDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. XTDB

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Open Source Time Series DBMSA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbjanusgraph.orgsiridb.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlingithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.janusgraph.orgdocs.siridb.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusCesbitJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20072017201720092019
Current release0.6.3, February 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaClojure
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoNumeric datayesyes, extensible-data-notation format
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
HTTP APITinkerPop 3HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Groovy
Java
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyesnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesoptionalyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serversimple rights management via user accountsno

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