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System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. OpenEdge vs. PostGIS vs. Prometheus vs. VelocityDB

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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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

janusgraph.org

www.progress.com/openedge

postgis.net

prometheus.io

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.janusgraph.org

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

postgis.net/documentation

prometheus.io/docs

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Progress Software Corporation

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2017

1984

2005

2015

2011

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.4.2, February 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

yes

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.Net

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

by Federation

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

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

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

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Users and groups

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Based on Windows Authentication

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