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System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. Linter vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB

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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

RDBMS for high security requirements

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

janusgraph.org

linter.ru

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.janusgraph.org

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

relex.ru

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2017

1990

2015

2013

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

hosted

Linux

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

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