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System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. Milvus vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQLite

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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

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#134	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	3.01
Rank	#89	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.janusgraph.org

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

SADAS s.r.l.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2017

2019

2006

2000

Current release

1.0.0, October 2023

2.4.4, May 2024

8.0

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

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

horizontal partitioning

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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