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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. JanusGraph vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

bigobject.io

www.ehcache.org

janusgraph.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.janusgraph.org

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Initial release

2015

2009

2017

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

yes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

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

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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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