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System Properties Comparison GraphDB vs. Graphite vs. GridDB vs. JanusGraph vs. VelocityDB

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NameGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score3.32
Rank#91  Overall
#6  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.ontotext.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgriddb.netjanusgraph.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.griddb.netdocs.janusgraph.orgvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperOntotextChris DavisToshiba CorporationLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20002006201320172011
Current release10.4, October 20235.1, August 20220.6.3, February 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC++JavaC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLstored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)nono
APIs and other access methodsGeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureswell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilitynonoyesno
TriggersnonoyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)noneImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoConstraint checkingnonoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID at container levelACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.noAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerBased on Windows Authentication
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GraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMGraphiteGridDBJanusGraph infosuccessor of TitanVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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