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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. JanusGraph vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.61
Rank	#60	Overall
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Score	1.85
Rank	#134	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

docs.janusgraph.org

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2018

2017

2012

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

1.0.0, October 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

yes

no

Triggers

no

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

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

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.

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

no

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

no

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More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

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1 December 2014, Matthias Gelbmann

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