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DBMS > JanusGraph vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PlanetScale vs. Postgres-XL vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PlanetScale vs. Postgres-XL vs. RethinkDB

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NameJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitejanusgraph.orgwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbplanetscale.comwww.postgres-xl.orgrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.janusgraph.orgdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbplanetscale.com/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusPerconaPlanetScaleThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2017201520202014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2009
Current release0.6.3, February 20233.4.10-2.10, November 201710 R1, October 20182.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++GoCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
proprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functions
TriggersyesnoyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)ShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID at shard levelACID infoMVCCAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovia In-Memory Engineyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissions

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