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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. JanusGraph vs. NCache vs. OrigoDB vs. TypeDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  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 WhisperA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webjanusgraph.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncacheorigodb.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.janusgraph.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsorigodb.com/­docstypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperChris DavisLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusAlachisoftRobert Friberg et alVaticle
Initial release2006201720052009 infounder the name LiveDB2016
Current release0.6.3, February 20235.3.3, April 20242.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC#Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and CounterUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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 infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.NetAll JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyesno
Triggersnoyesyes infoNotificationsyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)yeshorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyesnoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnodepending on modelno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Role based authorizationyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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GraphiteJanusGraph infosuccessor of TitanNCacheOrigoDBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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