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System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. Kdb vs. SpaceTime vs. Yanza vs. YugabyteDB

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NameJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017High performance Time Series DBMSSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Time Series DBMS for IoT ApplicationsHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitejanusgraph.orgkx.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimeyanza.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationdocs.janusgraph.orgcode.kx.comdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMireoYanzaYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20172000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003202020152017
Current release0.6.3, February 20233.6, May 20182.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialcommercial infofree version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanzano
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Implementation languageJavaqC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxWindowsLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'nonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (q)A subset of ANSI SQL is implementednoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C#
C++
Python
any language that supports HTTP callsC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnonoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyesyes infowith viewsnoyes infoTimer and event basedyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)horizontal partitioningFixed-grid hypercubesnoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)noneBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverrights management via user accountsyesnoyes
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JanusGraph infosuccessor of TitanKdbSpaceTimeYanzaYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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