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. JanusGraph is available under the Apache License 2.0. The project is supported by IBM, Google, Hortonworks and Grakn Labs. JanusGraph supports various storage backends (

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, Google Cloud Bigtable, Oracle BerkeleyDB, ScyllaDB). The Scalability of JanusGraph depends on the underlying technologies, which are used with JanusGraph. For example, by using Apache Cassandra as a storage backend scaling to multiple datacenters is provided out of the box. JanusGraph supports global graph data analytics, reporting, and ETL through integration with big data platforms (

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, Apache Giraph,

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). JanusGraph supports geo, numeric range, and full-text search via external index storages (

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). JanusGraph has native integration with the Apache TinkerPop graph stack ( Gremlin graph query language
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.

History

JanusGraph is the fork of TitanDB graph database which is being developed since 2012. * Version 0.1.0 was released on Apr 20, 2017. * Version 0.1.1 was released on May 16, 2017. * Version 0.2.0 was released on Oct 12, 2017. * Version 0.2.1 was released on Jul 10, 2018. * Version 0.2.2 was released on Oct 9, 2018. * Version 0.2.3 was released on May 21, 2019. * Version 0.3.0 was released on Jul 31, 2018. * Version 0.3.1 was released on Oct 2, 2018. * Version 0.3.2 was released on Jun 16, 2019. * Version 0.3.3 was released on Jan 11, 2020. * Version 0.4.0 was released on Jul 1, 2019. * Version 0.4.1 was released on Jan 14, 2020. * Version 0.5.0 was released on Mar 10, 2020. * Version 0.5.1 was released on Mar 25, 2020. * Version 0.5.2 was released on May 3, 2020. * Version 0.5.3 was released on December 24, 2020. * Version 0.6.0 was released on September 3, 2021. * Version 0.6.1 was released on January 18, 2022. * Version 0.6.3 was released on February 18, 2023. * Version 1.0.0 was released on October 21, 2023.

Licensing and contributions

JanusGraph is available under Apache Software License 2.0. For contributions an individual or an organisation must sign a CLA paper.

Literature

* Kelvin R. Lawrence. PRACTICAL GREMLIN An Apache TinkerPop Tutorial. Version 282-preview. - February 2019, pp. 324 – 363.

Publications

* Gabriel Campero Durand, Jingy Ma, Marcus Pinnecke, Gunter Saake: Piecing together large puzzles, efficiently: Towards scalable loading into graph database systems, May 2018 * Hima Karanam, Sumit Neelam, Udit Sharma, Sumit Bhatia, Srikanta Bedathur, L. Venkata Subramaniam, Maria Chang, Achille Fokoue-Nkoutche, Spyros Kotoulas, Bassem Makni, Mariano Rodriguez Muro, Ryan Musa, Michael Witbrock: Scalable Reasoning Infrastructure for Large Scale Knowledge Bases, October 2018 * Gabriel Campero Durand, Anusha Janardhana, Marcus Pinnecke, Yusra Shakeel, Jacob Krüger, Thomas Leich, Gunter Saake: Exploring Large Scholarly Networks with Hermes * Gabriel Tanase, Toyotaro Suzumura, Jinho Lee, Chun-Fu (Richard) Chen, Jason Crawford, Hiroki Kanezashi: System G Distributed Graph Database * Bogdan Iancu, Tiberiu Marian Georgescu: Saving Large Semantic Data in Cloud: A Survey of the Main DBaaS Solutions * Jingyi Ma. An Evaluation of the Design Space for Scalable Data Loading into Graph Databases - February 2018, pp. 39–47.

References

External links

Official website

Official documentation

JanusGraph deployment
/ IBM, 11 April 2018
Developing a JanusGraph-backed Service on Google Cloud Platform
/ Google, 19 July 2018
Performance optimization of JanusGraph
/ Expero, 23 January 2018
Graph Computing with JanusGraph
/ IBM, 8 June 2018
Large Scale Graph Analytics with JanusGraph
/ Hortonworks, 13 June 2017

/ IBM, 12 December 2017
Apache Atlas and JanusGraph – Graph-based Meta Data Management
/ IBM, 8 November 2018 {{Linux Foundation Graph databases Linux Foundation projects Free database management systems Free software programmed in Java (programming language) NoSQL Software using the Apache license Distributed computing architecture 2017 software