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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. JanusGraph vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sequoiadb

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A relational database management system that stores data in columnsNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicjanusgraph.orgwww.monetdb.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.janusgraph.orgwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperSpotifyLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusMonetDB BVOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20142017200419842013
Current release0.6.3, February 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 20237.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP Open VMSLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes, in SQL, C, RJavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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