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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 structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store

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Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

janusgraph.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.janusgraph.org

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

informationpartners gmbh

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2015

2019

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

1.0

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes, each node contains all data

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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Recent citations in the news

Simple Deployment of a Graph Database: JanusGraph
12 October 2020, Towards Data Science

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8 August 2019, ibm.com

JanusGraph Picks Up Where TitanDB Left Off
13 January 2017, Datanami

Nordstrom Builds Flexible Backend Ops with Kubernetes, Spark and JanusGraph
3 October 2019, The New Stack

Compose for JanusGraph arrives on Bluemix
15 September 2017, ibm.com

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