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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. JanusGraph vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1.91
Rank	#135	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#131	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

hbase.apache.org

janusgraph.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.janusgraph.org

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Oracle

Initial release

2008

2017

2007

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

0.6.3, February 2023

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

optionally

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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