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System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. Machbase Neo vs. Memgraph vs. TinkerGraph

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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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

janusgraph.org

machbase.com

memgraph.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.janusgraph.org

machbase.com/dbms

memgraph.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Machbase

Memgraph Ltd

Initial release

2017

2013

2017

2009

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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)

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

simple password-based access control

Users, roles and permissions

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