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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. EJDB vs. Titan vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. EJDB vs. Titan vs. TypeDB

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  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)Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titantypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikitypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsSoftmotionsAurelius, owned by DataStaxVaticle
Initial release2018201220122016
Current release2.3, January 20212.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lessLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.nonono
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
in-process shared libraryJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusternoneyesMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes infoRelationships in graphno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serveryes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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