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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.28
Rank	#119	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#135	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

dgraph.io

janusgraph.org

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

dgraph.io/docs

docs.janusgraph.org

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2012

2016

2017

2014

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Planned for future releases

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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