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DBMS > Graphite vs. JanusGraph vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. JanusGraph vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  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 2017Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value storeGraph DBMS
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#371  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webjanusgraph.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.janusgraph.orgwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperChris DavisLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSTS Soft SCTranswarp
Initial release2006201720092011
Current release0.6.3, February 20233.2.0, December 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaErlangC#
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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
Secondary indexesnoyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client APIOpenCypher
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesErlangno
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding infono "single point of failure"nonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serveryes, using Riak Securitynoyes

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