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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. JanusGraph vs. LokiJS vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

janusgraph.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.janusgraph.org

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Google

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2010

2017

2014

1994

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

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

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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