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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Fauna vs. JanusGraph vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Fauna vs. JanusGraph vs. SQL.JS

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.48
Rank#158  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#72  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#135  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#248  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iofauna.comjanusgraph.orgsql.js.org
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsdocs.fauna.comdocs.janusgraph.orgsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Fauna, Inc.Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2016201420172012
Current release0.6.3, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoScalaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Clojure
Java
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesIdentity management, authentication, and access controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverno

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