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System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. mSQL vs. STSdb vs. VoltDB

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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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

janusgraph.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.janusgraph.org

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Hughes Technologies

STS Soft SC

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2017

1994

2011

2010

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

4.4, October 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C#
Java

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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