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System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. Kinetica vs. TinkerGraph vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

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

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

janusgraph.org

www.kinetica.com

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

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.janusgraph.org

docs.kinetica.com

Developer

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Kinetica

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2017

2012

2009

2020

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

7.1, August 2021

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

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
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Immediate Consistency

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

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

optional

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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