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DBMS > BigObject vs. Dgraph vs. IRONdb vs. JanusGraph vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Dgraph vs. IRONdb vs. JanusGraph vs. Rockset

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitebigobject.iodgraph.iowww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/janusgraph.orgrockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodgraph.io/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.janusgraph.orgdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Dgraph Labs, Inc.Circonus LLC.Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusRockset
Initial release20152016201720172019
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20180.6.3, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageGoC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesdynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HTTP APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyes, in Luayesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Automatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication via Raftconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoPlanned for future releasesnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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