JanusGraph is a fully open-source, highly scalable, distributed graph database designed to store and query massive graphs with billions of vertices and edges. Optimized for cluster deployments, it provides fault tolerance and high availability under the Apache 2.0 license. Commercial alternatives include Neo4j Enterprise and Amazon Neptune, which offer managed services and additional enterprise features.
Key Features:
- Scalability: Linearly scalable to support growing data and user bases.
- Open Source: Fully open-source under the Apache 2 license.
- Transactional: Supports ACID and eventual consistency, handling thousands of concurrent users.
- Storage Flexibility: Supports various storage backends like Apache Cassandra, Apache HBase, Google Cloud Bigtable, Oracle BerkeleyDB, and ScyllaDB.
- Search Integration: Integrates with Elasticsearch, Apache Solr, and Apache Lucene for advanced search capabilities.
- Analytics Support: Supports global graph analytics with Apache Spark integration (OLAP).
- TinkerPop Integration: Native integration with the Apache TinkerPop graph stack, including Gremlin query language and Gremlin Server/Console.
- Adapters: Offers 3rd party storage adapters for Aerospike, DynamoDB, and FoundationDB.
- Visualization: Supports various visualization tools like Arcade Analytics, Cytoscape, and Graphlytic.
Use Cases:
- Social Networks: Modeling relationships between users and content.
- Knowledge Graphs: Representing complex relationships between entities and concepts.
- Recommendation Engines: Building personalized recommendations based on user behavior and preferences.
- Fraud Detection: Identifying fraudulent activities by analyzing patterns in transaction data.
- Network Monitoring: Visualizing and analyzing network traffic and dependencies.
- IoT Data Analysis: Analyzing relationships between devices and sensors in IoT networks.
