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System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. LokiJS vs. mSQL vs. Pinecone vs. SpatiaLite

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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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#95	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

janusgraph.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.pinecone.io

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.janusgraph.org

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Hughes Technologies

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2017

2014

1994

2019

2008

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

4.4, October 2021

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

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