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DBMS > JanusGraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PostGIS vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PostGIS vs. Prometheus

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NameJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelGraph DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitejanusgraph.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchpostgis.netprometheus.io
Technical documentationdocs.janusgraph.orglearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchpostgis.net/­documentationprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusMicrosoft
Initial release2017201520052015
Current release0.6.3, February 2023V13.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaCGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data only
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.nonoyesno infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serveryes infousing Azure authenticationyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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