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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. JanusGraph vs. Snowflake vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

janusgraph.org

www.snowflake.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.janusgraph.org

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Cognitect

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2012

2017

2014

2003

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

0.6.3, February 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

user defined functions

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

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

yes

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

Multi-source replication
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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate 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

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

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

recommended only for testing and development

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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