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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. JanusGraph vs. Lovefield vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

druid.apache.org

janusgraph.org

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.janusgraph.org

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Google

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2017

2014

2011

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

0.6.3, February 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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 for querying

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

yes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

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

yes

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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