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System Properties Comparison gStore vs. Hypertable vs. JanusGraph vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

en.gstore.cn

janusgraph.org

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.janusgraph.org

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Initial release

2016

2009

2017

2009

Current release

1.2, November 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

C++ API
Thrift

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

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

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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