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DBMS > Geode vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Titan

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comjanusgraph.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.janusgraph.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20022010201520172012
Current release1.1, February 20173.3 July 20230.6.3, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)noA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnono
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyesyes
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)yes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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