DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. JanusGraph vs. LeanXcale vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. JanusGraph vs. LeanXcale vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

janusgraph.org

www.leanxcale.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

docs.janusgraph.org

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Google

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

LeanXcale

SiteWhere

Initial release

2008

2017

2015

2010

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

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 (GQL)

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

C
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

yes

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

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

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

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

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 rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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