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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. JanusGraph vs. mSQL vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

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

Primary database model

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Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	1.85
Rank	#134	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#345	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

janusgraph.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

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

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.janusgraph.org

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2010

2017

1994

2009

Current release

1.0.0, October 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual 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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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