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DBMS > JanusGraph vs. Pinecone vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. Pinecone vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere

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NameJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A managed, cloud-native vector databaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelGraph DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitejanusgraph.orgwww.pinecone.ioquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.janusgraph.orgdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusPinecone Systems, IncquasardbSiteWhere
Initial release2017201920092010
Current release0.6.3, February 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Python
Python.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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