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DBMS > BoltDB vs. JanusGraph vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. JanusGraph vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB vs. Yaacomo

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Port of SQLite to JavaScriptAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltjanusgraph.orgsql.js.orgswaydb.simer.auyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.janusgraph.orgsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSimer PlahaQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20132017201220182009
Current release0.6.3, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportednoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
JavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoClojure
Java
Python
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)nonenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Servernonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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