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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. JanusGraph vs. Newts vs. RDF4J vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

janusgraph.org

opennms.github.io/newts

rdf4j.org

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.janusgraph.org

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

CNRS

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

OpenNMS Group

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2013

2017

2014

2004

2013

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

HTTP REST
Java API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
Java
Python

Java

Java
PHP
Python

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

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)

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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