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JanusGraph

An open-source distributed property graph database forked from the Titan codebase. Supports pluggable storage backends (Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB) with ACID transactions and native TinkerPop integration.

Details

Vendor
The Linux Foundation
Type
Property Graph
Category
Established
License
Apache-2.0
Query Languages
Gremlin

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Feature Scores

Community & Business

Active development
Updated within last 3 months
Commercial support
No commercial support
Live community
>75% of issues addressed
Open Source
Open source license
Pricing
Pricing publicly available
Trendiness

Deployment

Containerization
Docker image available
Work as dedicated instance
Can run as standalone server
Work as embedded
Can embed in application
Testing in-memory version
In-memory mode available

Platform

Operating on Linux
Linux officially supported
Operating on Windows
Windows officially supported
SaaS offering
Cloud service available

Operations

Automatic updates
Manual updates only
Client side caching
No client-side caching
Data versioning support
No versioning
Live backups
Hot backup supported

Distribution

Cluster Re-balancing
No auto-rebalancing
Data Distribution
Data sharding supported
High-Availability
HA mechanisms available
Query Distribution
No distributed queries
Replication support
Replication available

Developer Experience

Data types defined
Composite data types
Logging/Auditing
Event logging supported
Object-Graph Mapper
No object mapper
Reactive programming
No reactive programming
Documentation up-to-date
Binary protocol
Binary protocol available
CLI
Command-line interface
GUI
No GUI

Data Model

Multi-database
Multi-model database
Graph-native data
Native graph storage
REST API
REST endpoint available
Query Language
Standard query language (Cypher/Gremlin)

Transactions

Granular locking
Multiple isolation levels
Single isolation level
Read committed transaction
Transaction support
ACID transactions

Schema & Security

Constraints
Full constraint support
Schema support
Schema definition tools
Secondary indexes
Secondary indexes supported
Server side procedures
No stored procedures
Triggers
Authentication
Authentication supported
Authorization
Role-based access control
Data encryption
No encryption