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

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

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NameJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 2017In-memory JavaScript DBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columnsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.85
Rank#134  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.05
Rank#355  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitejanusgraph.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.orgswaydb.simer.auwww.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 AureliusMonetDB BVSimer PlahaTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20172014200420181987
Current release1.0.0, October 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptCScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
JavaScript APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Python
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Rnoyes
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)noneSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDAtomic execution of operationsyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Servernofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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