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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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#135	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#248	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

docs.janusgraph.org

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

OpenNMS Group

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2016

2017

2014

2012

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Go

Java

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

yes

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.

no

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

no

SQL

Support of SQL

no

no

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

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

HTTP REST
Java API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
Java
Python

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

yes

no

no

Triggers

no

yes

no

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

yes

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

Relationships in graphs

no

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID

no

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

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

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

no

Planned for future releases

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

no

no

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