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System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB

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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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

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Score	1.91
Rank	#135	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#131	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

janusgraph.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.snowflake.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.janusgraph.org

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2017

2007

2014

2018

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java
Python

.Net
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

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

configurable

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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