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DBMS > BoltDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Stardog vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Stardog vs. VoltDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 2017Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltjanusgraph.orgwww.stardog.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.janusgraph.orgdocs.stardog.comdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusStardog-UnionVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2013201720102010
Current release0.6.3, February 20237.3.0, May 202011.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaJava, C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serveryes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoClojure
Java
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in JavaJava
Triggersnoyesyes infovia event handlersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication in HA-ClusterMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes inforelationships in graphsno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess rights for users and rolesUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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