DBMS > JanusGraph vs. Lovefield vs. MonetDB vs. RethinkDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. Lovefield vs. MonetDB vs. RethinkDB 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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

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

Website

janusgraph.org

google.github.io/lovefield

www.monetdb.org

rethinkdb.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.janusgraph.org

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Google

MonetDB BV

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2014

2004

2009

2013

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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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)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

none

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

range based

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

yes

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

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 single-document operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

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