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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Datomic vs. GeoSpock vs. JanusGraph vs. OrientDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitySpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.32
Rank#288  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#135  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score3.27
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#15  Key-value stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.datomic.comgeospock.comjanusgraph.orgorientdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.janusgraph.orgwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperAxibase CorporationCognitectGeoSpockLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release2013201220172010
Current release155851.0.6735, June 20232.0, September 20190.6.3, February 20233.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureJava, JavascriptJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBCJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction FunctionsnoyesJava, Javascript
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsnoyesHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersAutomatic shardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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