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System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. RethinkDB vs. YTsaurus

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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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#134	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

janusgraph.org

rethinkdb.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

docs.janusgraph.org

rethinkdb.com/docs

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Yandex

Initial release

2017

2009

2023

Current release

1.0.0, October 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

SQL

Support of SQL

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java
Python

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

Sharding

range based

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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.

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

yes

users and table-level permissions

Access Control Lists

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