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Name

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

janusgraph.org

origodb.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.janusgraph.org

origodb.com/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Softmotions

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Robert Friberg et al

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2017

2009

under the name LiveDB

2018

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

.Net

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Relationships in graphs

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

Write ahead log

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Role based authorization

Role-based access control

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