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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ingres vs. JanusGraph vs. TypeDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesWell established RDBMSA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresjanusgraph.orgtypedb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.janusgraph.orgtypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperChris DavisIBMActian CorporationLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusVaticle
Initial release200620171974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20172016
Current release2.011.2, May 20220.6.3, February 20232.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++CJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyesyes
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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Clojure
Java
Python
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesyesno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneActive-active shard replicationIngres ReplicatoryesMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingNo - written data is immutableyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes 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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serveryes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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