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System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. LevelDB vs. NSDb vs. OrigoDB vs. XTDB

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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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

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Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

janusgraph.org

github.com/google/leveldb

nsdb.io

origodb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.janusgraph.org

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

nsdb.io/Architecture

origodb.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Google

Robert Friberg et al

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2011

2017

2009

under the name LiveDB

2019

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

1.23, February 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, Scala

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java
Python

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Java
Scala

.Net

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

depending on model

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

with automatic compression on writes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

Write ahead log

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Role based authorization

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