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DBMS > JanusGraph vs. Kingbase vs. LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. Kingbase vs. LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. Transbase

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NameJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.In-memory JavaScript DBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.85
Rank#134  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#258  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#355  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitejanusgraph.orgwww.kingbase.com.cngithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.janusgraph.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.MonetDB BVTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20171999201420041987
Current release1.0.0, October 2023V8.0, August 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaJavaScriptCC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JavaScript APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Ryes
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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