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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. JanusGraph vs. TerminusDB vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

janusgraph.org

terminusdb.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.janusgraph.org

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Chris Davis

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

DataChemist Ltd.

Yandex

Initial release

2006

2017

2018

2023

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Prolog, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Journaling Streams

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual 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

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 journaling

yes

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Role-based access control

Access Control Lists

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