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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. JanusGraph vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Graph DBMS

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Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#49	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#49	Key-value stores
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#127	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#356	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS

Website

arcadedb.com

janusgraph.org

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.janusgraph.org

Developer

Arcade Data

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Initial release

2021

2017

2009

Current release

September 2021

1.0.0, October 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
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-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
Java
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

yes

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

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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