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System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transbase vs. Valentina Server

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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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

janusgraph.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sequoiadb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.janusgraph.org

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Transaction Software GmbH

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2017

2014

2013

1987

1999

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

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

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JavaScript API

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

yes

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual 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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Document is locked during a transaction

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

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

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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