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DBMS > JanusGraph vs. ObjectBox vs. Stardog vs. TerminusDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. ObjectBox vs. Stardog vs. TerminusDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelGraph DBMSObject oriented DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitejanusgraph.orgobjectbox.iowww.stardog.comterminusdb.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.janusgraph.orgdocs.objectbox.iodocs.stardog.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusObjectBox LimitedStardog-UnionDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20172017201020182017
Current release0.6.3, February 20237.3.0, May 202011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaProlog, RustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL ServerSQL-like query language (WOQL)SQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Proprietary native APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javayesyes
Triggersyesnoyes infovia event handlersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)nonenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication in HA-ClusterJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyes inforelationships in graphsyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServeryesAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access controlRole-based access control
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