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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. JanusGraph vs. OushuDB vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2

janusgraph.org

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

typedb.com

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.janusgraph.org

www.oushu.com/documentation

typedb.com/docs

Developer

IBM

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Oushu

Vaticle

Initial release

1983

host version

2017

2016

Current release

12.1, October 2016

0.6.3, February 2023

4.0.1, August 2020

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Clojure
Java
Python

C
C++

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

yes

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

yes

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Hadoop integration

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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