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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. JanusGraph vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

janusgraph.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.janusgraph.org

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Mobiland AG

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Microsoft

Initial release

2018

2017

2010

2017

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

0.6.3, February 2023

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Clojure
Java
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

yes

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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