DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MySQL vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MySQL vs. Titan

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Name

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.

Description

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Widely used open source RDBMS

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#303	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.mysql.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

dev.mysql.com/doc

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2018

2014

1995

2012

Current release

2.3, January 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JavaScript API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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