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DBMS > Hive vs. JanusGraph vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. JanusGraph vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS vs. TinkerGraph

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgjanusgraph.orgorigodb.compostgis.nettinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.janusgraph.orgorigodb.com/­docspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusRobert Friberg et al
Initial release201220172009 infounder the name LiveDB20052009
Current release3.1.3, April 20220.6.3, February 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC#CJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes
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.nono infocan be achieved using .NETyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
.NetGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes infoDomain Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)horizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsdepending on modelyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes infoWrite ahead logyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerRole based authorizationyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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