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DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Dgraph vs. EJDB vs. Firebird vs. JanusGraph

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Dgraph vs. EJDB vs. Firebird vs. JanusGraph

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score1.25
Rank#170  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Websitekylin.apache.orgdgraph.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.firebirdsql.orgjanusgraph.org
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docsdgraph.io/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.janusgraph.org
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncDgraph Labs, Inc.SoftmotionsFirebird FoundationLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius
Initial release2015201620122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2017
Current release3.1.0, July 20205.0.0, January 20240.6.3, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoCC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lessAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)nonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
in-process shared libraryADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPSQLyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnonenoneyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftnoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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