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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. JanusGraph vs. LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.39
Rank	#155	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#134	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

janusgraph.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.monetdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.janusgraph.org

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

MonetDB BV

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2017

2014

2004

1987

Current release

1.0.0, October 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JavaScript API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

none

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

yes

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

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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