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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. EJDB vs. LokiJS vs. ScyllaDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. EJDB vs. LokiJS vs. ScyllaDB vs. Titan

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)In-memory JavaScript DBMSCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeDocument storeWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
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Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.scylladb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.scylladb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsSoftmotionsScyllaDBAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20182012201420152012
Current release2.3, January 2021ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPLv2Open SourceOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lessserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia viewsyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.nonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)no
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
in-process shared libraryJavaScript APIProprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptFor CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnoView functions in JavaScriptyes, Luayes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnonenoneShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusternonenoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnoyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusternoneEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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