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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. JanusGraph vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J vs. VelocityDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webjanusgraph.orgwww.kinetica.comrdf4j.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.janusgraph.orgdocs.kinetica.comrdf4j.org/­documentationvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperChris DavisLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusKineticaSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20062017201220042011
Current release0.6.3, February 20237.1, August 20217.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC, C++JavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
.Net
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)ShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoBased on Windows Authentication

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