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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Fauna vs. JanusGraph vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Fauna vs. JanusGraph vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.27
Rank#302  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score1.55
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#72  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#135  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographfauna.comjanusgraph.orgwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.fauna.comdocs.janusgraph.orgwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsFauna, Inc.Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius
Initial release2018201420172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release2.3, January 20210.6.3, February 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.nonoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsyesuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesIdentity management, authentication, and access controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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