DBMS > Graphite vs. GridGain vs. JanusGraph vs. MarkLogic vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. GridGain vs. JanusGraph vs. MarkLogic vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.janusgraph.org

docs.marklogic.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Chris Davis

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

MarkLogic Corp.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2006

2007

2017

2001

2014

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

0.6.3, February 2023

11.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

SQL92

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

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

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate 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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

yes, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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