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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. JanusGraph vs. Lovefield vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

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 high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

geode.apache.org

janusgraph.org

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.janusgraph.org

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

Developer

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Google

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2002

2017

2014

2020

Current release

1.1, February 2017

0.6.3, February 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

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

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

yes, on a single node

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

Access rights per client and object definable

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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