DBMS > BigObject vs. JanusGraph vs. MonetDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. JanusGraph vs. MonetDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#135	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	15.65
Rank	#38	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

bigobject.io

janusgraph.org

www.monetdb.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.janusgraph.org

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

MonetDB BV

Amazon Web Services

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2015

2017

2004

2021

2009

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java
Python

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

Source-replica replication

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

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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