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Name

Description

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebolt.io

janusgraph.org

google.github.io/lovefield

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

docs.janusgraph.org

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Google

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2020

2017

2014

2017

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

none

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

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

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, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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