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DBMS > JanusGraph vs. KairosDB vs. RavenDB vs. TigerGraph vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. KairosDB vs. RavenDB vs. TigerGraph vs. Titan

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NameJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
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 Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#134  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#238  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#102  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.44
Rank#152  Overall
#14  Graph DBMS
Websitejanusgraph.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbravendb.netwww.tigergraph.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.janusgraph.orgkairosdb.github.ioravendb.net/­docsdocs.tigergraph.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusHibernating RhinosAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20172013201020172012
Current release1.0.0, October 20231.2.2, November 20185.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC#C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 language (RQL)SQL-like query language (GSQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyesyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding infobased on CassandraShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenoyesyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serversimple password-based access controlAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseRole-based access controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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