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System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. PouchDB vs. SWC-DB vs. TerarkDB

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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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#134	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

janusgraph.org

pouchdb.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.janusgraph.org

pouchdb.com/guides

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Apache Software Foundation

Alex Kashirin

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2017

2012

2020

2016

Current release

1.0.0, October 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

C++

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

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