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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. JanusGraph vs. LMDB vs. NSDb vs. TypeDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comjanusgraph.orgwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbnsdb.iotypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.janusgraph.orgwww.lmdb.tech/­docnsdb.io/­Architecturetypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperCognitectLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusSymasVaticle
Initial release20122017201120172016
Current release1.0.6735, June 20230.6.3, February 20230.9.32, January 20242.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaCJava, ScalaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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 indexesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Java
Scala
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyesnonono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)noneShardingSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesnoneMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenonoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, HazelcastyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Servernoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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DatomicJanusGraph infosuccessor of TitanLMDBNSDbTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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