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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. CouchDB vs. InfinityDB vs. JanusGraph vs. PouchDB

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeKey-value storeGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographcouchdb.apache.orgboilerbay.comjanusgraph.orgpouchdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stableboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.janusgraph.orgpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerBoiler Bay Inc.Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusApache Software Foundation
Initial release20182005200220172012
Current release2.3, January 20213.3.3, December 20234.00.6.3, February 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.nononono
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
JavaClojure
Java
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesView functions in JavaScriptnoyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverno

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