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DBMS > JanusGraph vs. KairosDB vs. NCache vs. PlanetScale

System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. KairosDB vs. NCache vs. PlanetScale

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NameJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitejanusgraph.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.alachisoft.com/­ncacheplanetscale.com
Technical documentationdocs.janusgraph.orgkairosdb.github.iowww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusAlachisoftPlanetScale
Initial release2017201320052020
Current release0.6.3, February 20231.2.2, November 20185.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnoyes infoNotificationsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding infobased on CassandrayesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes 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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serversimple password-based access controlAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Users with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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JanusGraph infosuccessor of TitanKairosDBNCachePlanetScale
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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