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Version Compatibility

The JanusGraph project is growing along with the rest of the graph and big data ecosystem and utilized storage and indexing backends. Below are version compatibilities between the various versions of components. For dependent backend systems, different minor versions are typically supported as well. It is strongly encouraged to verify version compatibility prior to deploying JanusGraph.

Although JanusGraph may be compatible with older and no longer supported versions of its dependencies, users are warned that there are possible risks and security exposures with running software that is no longer supported or updated. Please check with the software providers to understand their supported versions. Users are strongly encouraged to use the latest versions of the software.

Version Compatibility Matrix

Currently supported

All currently supported versions of JanusGraph are listed below.

Info

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JanusGraph Storage Version Cassandra HBase Bigtable Elasticsearch Solr TinkerPop Spark Scala
0.6.z 2 3.0.z, 3.11.z 1.6.z, 2.2.z 1.3.0, 1.4.0, 1.5.z, 1.6.z, 1.7.z, 1.8.z, 1.9.z, 1.10.z, 1.11.z, 1.14.z 6.y, 7.y 7.y, 8.y 3.5.z 3.0.z 2.12.z

End-of-Life

The versions of JanusGraph listed below are outdated and will no longer receive bugfixes.

JanusGraph Storage Version Cassandra HBase Bigtable Elasticsearch Solr TinkerPop Spark Scala
0.1.z 1 1.2.z, 2.0.z, 2.1.z 0.98.z, 1.0.z, 1.1.z, 1.2.z 0.9.z, 1.0.0-preZ, 1.0.0 1.5.z 5.2.z 3.2.z 1.6.z 2.10.z
0.2.z 1 1.2.z, 2.0.z, 2.1.z, 2.2.z, 3.0.z, 3.11.z 0.98.z, 1.0.z, 1.1.z, 1.2.z, 1.3.z 0.9.z, 1.0.0-preZ, 1.0.0 1.5-1.7.z, 2.3-2.4.z, 5.y, 6.y 5.2-5.5.z, 6.2-6.6.z, 7.y 3.2.z 1.6.z 2.10.z
0.3.z 2 1.2.z, 2.0.z, 2.1.z, 2.2.z, 3.0.z, 3.11.z 1.0.z, 1.1.z, 1.2.z, 1.3.z, 1.4.z 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.1.2, 1.2.0, 1.3.0, 1.4.0 1.5-1.7.z, 2.3-2.4.z, 5.y, 6.y 5.2-5.5.z, 6.2-6.6.z, 7.y 3.3.z 2.2.z 2.11.z
0.4.z 2 2.1.z, 2.2.z, 3.0.z, 3.11.z 1.2.z, 1.3.z, 1.4.z, 2.1.z N/A 5.y, 6.y 7.y 3.4.z 2.2.z 2.11.z
0.5.z 2 2.1.z, 2.2.z, 3.0.z, 3.11.z 1.2.z, 1.3.z, 1.4.z, 2.1.z 1.3.0, 1.4.0, 1.5.z, 1.6.z, 1.7.z, 1.8.z, 1.9.z, 1.10.z, 1.11.z, 1.14.z 6.y, 7.y 7.y 3.4.z 2.2.z 2.11.z

Release Notes

Version 0.6.3 (Release Date: February 18, 2023)

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.janusgraph</groupId>
    <artifactId>janusgraph-core</artifactId>
    <version>0.6.3</version>
</dependency>

compile "org.janusgraph:janusgraph-core:0.6.3"

Tested Compatibility:

  • Apache Cassandra 3.0.14, 3.11.10
  • Apache HBase 1.6.0, 2.2.7
  • Oracle BerkeleyJE 7.5.11
  • Elasticsearch 6.0.1, 6.6.0, 7.14.0
  • Apache Lucene 8.9.0
  • Apache Solr 7.7.2, 8.11.0
  • Apache TinkerPop 3.5.5
  • Java 1.8

Note

Google Bigtable was removed from this list because there is no automatic testing in place specifically for that backend. Since the adapter for Bigtable is however just using the HBase adapter, it is also covered by the tests for HBase.

We invite anyone who is interested in the Bigtable storage adapter to help with this by contributing so that the tests for HBase are also automatically executed for Bigtable. More information can be found in this GitHub issue: janusgraph/janusgraph#415.

Changes

For more information on features and bug fixes in 0.6.3, see the GitHub milestone:

Assets

Version 0.6.2 (Release Date: May 31, 2022)

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.janusgraph</groupId>
    <artifactId>janusgraph-core</artifactId>
    <version>0.6.2</version>
</dependency>

compile "org.janusgraph:janusgraph-core:0.6.2"

Tested Compatibility:

  • Apache Cassandra 3.0.14, 3.11.10
  • Apache HBase 1.6.0, 2.2.7
  • Google Bigtable 1.3.0, 1.4.0, 1.5.0, 1.6.0, 1.7.0, 1.8.0, 1.9.0, 1.10.0, 1.11.0, 1.14.0
  • Oracle BerkeleyJE 7.5.11
  • Elasticsearch 6.0.1, 6.6.0, 7.14.0
  • Apache Lucene 8.9.0
  • Apache Solr 7.7.2, 8.9.0
  • Apache TinkerPop 3.5.3
  • Java 1.8

Changes

For more information on features and bug fixes in 0.6.2, see the GitHub milestone:

Assets

Version 0.6.1 (Release Date: January 18, 2022)

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.janusgraph</groupId>
    <artifactId>janusgraph-core</artifactId>
    <version>0.6.1</version>
</dependency>

compile "org.janusgraph:janusgraph-core:0.6.1"

Tested Compatibility:

  • Apache Cassandra 3.0.14, 3.11.10
  • Apache HBase 1.6.0, 2.2.7
  • Google Bigtable 1.3.0, 1.4.0, 1.5.0, 1.6.0, 1.7.0, 1.8.0, 1.9.0, 1.10.0, 1.11.0, 1.14.0
  • Oracle BerkeleyJE 7.5.11
  • Elasticsearch 6.0.1, 6.6.0, 7.14.0
  • Apache Lucene 8.9.0
  • Apache Solr 7.7.2, 8.9.0
  • Apache TinkerPop 3.5.1
  • Java 1.8

Changes

For more information on features and bug fixes in 0.6.1, see the GitHub milestone:

Assets

Upgrade Instructions

GraphManager changed to JanusGraphManager

A GraphManager is used to instantiate graph instances. JanusGraph Server has used the DefaultGraphManager from TinkerPop for this by default if no other GraphManager was specified in the JanusGraph Server YAML config file. The behavior of this DefaultGraphManager was changed in TinkerPop 3.5.0 which is included in JanusGraph 0.6.0 in how it parses config values, making it impossible to provide comma separated values, e.g., to specify multiple hostnames for the storage backend. The JanusGraphManager does not have this limitation which is why it is now configured as the GraphManager in the JanusGraph Server config files:

[...]
channelizer: org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.server.channel.WebSocketChannelizer
graphManager: org.janusgraph.graphdb.management.JanusGraphManager
graphs: {
  graph: conf/janusgraph-berkeleyje-es.properties
}
[...]

If you however want to continue using the DefaultGraphManager, then you can simply remove the setting again or change it to the TinkerPop GraphManager that has been the default before: org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.server.util.DefaultGraphManager.

Version 0.6.0 (Release Date: September 3, 2021)

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.janusgraph</groupId>
    <artifactId>janusgraph-core</artifactId>
    <version>0.6.0</version>
</dependency>

compile "org.janusgraph:janusgraph-core:0.6.0"

Tested Compatibility:

  • Apache Cassandra 3.0.14, 3.11.10
  • Apache HBase 1.6.0, 2.2.7
  • Google Bigtable 1.3.0, 1.4.0, 1.5.0, 1.6.0, 1.7.0, 1.8.0, 1.9.0, 1.10.0, 1.11.0, 1.14.0
  • Oracle BerkeleyJE 7.5.11
  • Elasticsearch 6.0.1, 6.6.0, 7.14.0
  • Apache Lucene 8.9.0
  • Apache Solr 7.7.2, 8.9.0
  • Apache TinkerPop 3.5.3
  • Java 1.8

Changes

For more information on features and bug fixes in 0.6.0, see the GitHub milestone:

Assets

Upgrade Instructions

Experimental support for Amazon Keyspaces

Amazon Keyspaces is a serverless managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service provided by Amazon. See Deploying on Amazon Keyspaces for more details.

Breaking change for Configuration objects

Prior to JanusGraph 0.6.0, Configuration objects were from the Apache commons-configuration library. To comply with the TinkerPop change, JanusGraph now uses the commons-configuration2 library. A typical usage of configuration object is to create configuration using ConfigurationGraphFactory. Now you would need to use the new configuration2 library. Please refer to the commons-configuration 2.0 migration guide for details. Note that this very likely does not affect gremlin console usage, since the new library is auto-imported, and the basic APIs remain the same. For java code usage, you need to import configuration2 library rather than the old configuration library.

Breaking change for gremlin server configs

scriptEvaluationTimeout is renamed to evaluationTimeout. You can refer to conf/gremlin-server/gremlin-server.yaml for example.

Breaking change for gremlin EventStrategy usage

If you are using EventStrategy, please note that now you need to register it every time you start a new transaction. An example is available at ThreadLocalTxLeakTest::eventListenersCanBeReusedAcrossTx See more background of this breaking change in this pull request.

Disable smart-limit by default and change HARD_MAX_LIMIT

Prior to 0.6.0, smart-limit is enabled by default. It tries to guess a small limit for each graph centric query (e.g. g.V().has("prop", "value")) internally, and if more results are required by user, it queries backend again with a larger limit, and repeats until either results are exhausted or user stops the query. However, this is not the same as paging mechanism. All interim results will be fetched again in next round, making the whole query costly. Even worse, if your data backend does not return results in a consistent order, then some entries might be missing in the final results. Until JanusGraph can fully utilize the paging capacity provided by backends (e.g. Elasticsearch scroll), this option is recommended to be turned off. The exception is when you have a large number of results but you only need a few of them, then enabling smart-limit can reduce latency and memory usage. An example would be:

Iterator<Vertex> iter = graph.traversal().V().has("prop", "value");
while (iter.hasNext()) {
    Vertex v = iter.next();
    if (canStop()) break;
}

Prior to 0.6.0, even if smart-limit is disabled, JanusGraph adds a HARD_MAX_LIMIT that is equivalent to 100,000 to avoid fetching too many results at a time. This limit is now configurable, and by default, it's Integer.MAX_VALUE which can be interpreted as no limit.

Add experimental support for Java 11

We started to work on support for Java 11. We would like to get feedback, if everything is working as expected after upgrading to Java 11.

Removal of LoggingSchemaMaker

The schema.default=logging option is not valid anymore. Use schema.default=default and schema.logging=true options together to make application behaviour unaltered, if you are using LoggingSchemaMaker.

Replacing the server startup script is replaced

The gremlin-server.sh is placed by janusgraph-server.sh. The janusgraph-server.sh brings some new functionality such as easy configuration of Java options using the jvm.options file.

The jvm.options file contains some default configurations for JVM based on Cassandra's JVM configurations, Elasticsearch and the old gremlin-server.sh.

Serialization of JanusGraph predicates has changed

The serialization of JanusGraph predicates has changed in this version for both GraphSON and Gryo. The newest version of the JanusGraph Driver requires a JanusGraph Server version of 0.6.0 and above. The server includes a fallback for clients with an older driver to make the upgrade to version 0.6.0 easier. This means that the server can be upgraded first without having to update all clients at the same time. The fallback will however be removed in a future version of JanusGraph so clients should also be upgraded.

GraphBinary is now supported

GraphBinary is a new binary serialization format from TinkerPop that supersedes Gryo and it will eventually also replace GraphSON. GraphBinary is language independent and has a low serialization overhead which results in an improved performance.

If you want to use GraphBinary, you have to add following to the gremlin-server.yaml after the keyword serializers. This will add the support on the server site.

Note

The java driver is the only driver that currently supports GraphBinary, see Connecting to JanusGraph using Java.

New index selection algorithm

In version 0.6.0, the index selection algorithm has changed. If the number of possible indexes for a query is small enough, the new algorithm will perform an exhaustive search to minimize the number of indexes which need to be queried. The default limit is set to 10. In order to maintain the old selection algorithm regardless of the available indexes, set the key query.index-select-threshold to 0. For more information, see Configuration Reference

Removal of Cassandra Thrift support

Thrift will be completely removed in Cassandra 4. All deprecated Cassandra Thrift backends were removed in JanusGraph 0.6.0. We already added support for CQL in JanusGraph 0.2.0 and we have been encouraging users to switch from Thrift to CQL since version 0.2.1.

This means that the following backends were removed: cassandrathrift, cassandra, astyanax, and embeddedcassandra. Users who still use one of these Thrift backends should migrate to CQL. Our migration guide explains the necessary steps for this. The option to run Cassandra embedded in the same JVM as JanusGraph is however no longer supported with CQL.

Note

The source code for the Thrift backends will be moved into a dedicated repository. While we do not support them any more, users can still use them if they for some reason cannot migrate to CQL.

Drop support for Cassandra 2

With the release of Cassandra 4, the support of Cassandra 2 will be dropped. Therefore, you should upgrade to Cassandra 3 or higher.

Note

Cassandra 3 and higher doesn't support compact storage. If you have activated or never changed the value of storage.cql.storage-compact=true, during the upgrade process you have to ensure your data is correctly migrated.

Introduction of a JanusGraph Server startup class as a replacement for Gremlin Server startup

The gremlin-server.sh and the janusgraph.sh are configured to use the new JanusGraph startup class. This new class introduces a default set of TinkerPop Serializers if no serializers are configured in the gremlin-server.yaml. Furthermore, JanusGraph will log the version of JanusGraph and TinkerPop after a shiny new JanusGraph header.

Note

If you have a custom script to startup JanusGraph, you propably would like to replace the Gremlin Server class with JanusGraph Server class:

org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.server.GremlinServer => org.janusgraph.graphdb.server.JanusGraphServer

Drop support for Ganglia metrics

We are dropping Ganglia as we are using dropwizard for metrics. Dropwizard did drop Ganglia in the newest major version.

DataStax cassandra driver upgrade from 3.9.0 to 4.13.0

All DataStax cassandra driver metrics are now disabled by default. To enable DataStax driver metrics you need to provide a list of Session level metrics and / or Node level metrics you want to enable. To provide a list of enabled metrics, you can use the next configuration options: storage.cql.metrics.session-enabled and storage.cql.metrics.node-enabled. Notice, DataStax metrics are enabled only when basic metrics are enabled (i.e. metrics.enabled = true). See configuration references storage.cql.metrics for additional DataStax metrics configuration.

An example configuration which enables some CQL Session level and Node level metrics reporting by JMX: 

metrics.enabled=true
metrics.jmx.enabled=true
metrics.jmx.domain=com.datastax.oss.driver
metrics.jmx.agentid=agent
storage.cql.metrics.session-enabled=bytes-sent,bytes-received,connected-nodes,cql-requests,throttling.delay
storage.cql.metrics.node-enabled=pool.open-connections,pool.available-streams,bytes-sent,cql-messages

See advanced.metrics.session.enabled and advanced.metrics.node.enabled sections in DataStax Metrics Configuration for a complete list of available Session level and Node level metrics.

Due to driver upgrade the next cql configuration options have been removed:

  • local-core-connections-per-host
  • remote-core-connections-per-host
  • local-max-requests-per-connection
  • remote-max-requests-per-connection
  • cluster-name

storage.connection-timeout is now used to control initial connection timeout to CQL storage and not request timeouts. Please, use storage.cql.request-timeout to configure request timeouts instead.

New cql configuration options should be used for upgrade:

  • max-requests-per-connection
  • session-name

storage.cql.local-datacenter is mandatory now and defaults to datacenter1.

See more new cql configuration options in configuration references under storage.cql section.

Automatic configurations of dynamic graph binding

If the JanusGraphManager is configured, dynamic graph binding will be setup automatically, see Dynamic Graphs.

Note

Breaking changes in the config of the gremlin-server.yaml.

Following, classes are removed and have to be replaced by tinkerpop equivalent:

removed class replacement class
org.janusgraph.channelizers.JanusGraphWebSocketChannelizer org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.server.channel.WebSocketChannelizer
org.janusgraph.channelizers.JanusGraphHttpChannelizer org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.server.channel.HttpChannelizer
org.janusgraph.channelizers.JanusGraphNioChannelizer org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.server.channel.NioChannelizer
org.janusgraph.channelizers.JanusGraphWsAndHttpChannelizer org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.server.channel.WsAndHttpChannelizer
Breaking change Lucene and Solr fuzzy predicates

The text predicates text.textFuzzy and text.textContainsFuzzy have been updated in both the Lucene and Solr indexing backends to align with JanusGraph and Elastic. These predicates now inspect the query length to determine the Levenshtein distance, where previously they used the backend's default max distance of 2:

  • 0 for strings of one or two characters (exact match)
  • 1 for strings of three, four or five characters
  • 2 for strings of more than five characters

Change Matrix:

text query previous result new result
ah ah true true
ah ai true false
hop hop true true
hop hap true true
hop hoop true true
hop hooop true false
surprises surprises true true
surprises surprizes true true
surprises surpprises true true
surprises surpprisess false false

Version 0.5.3 (Release Date: December 24, 2020)

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.janusgraph</groupId>
    <artifactId>janusgraph-core</artifactId>
    <version>0.5.3</version>
</dependency>

compile "org.janusgraph:janusgraph-core:0.5.3"

Tested Compatibility:

  • Apache Cassandra 2.2.10, 3.0.14, 3.11.0
  • Apache HBase 1.2.6, 1.3.1, 1.4.10, 2.1.5
  • Google Bigtable 1.3.0, 1.4.0, 1.5.0, 1.6.0, 1.7.0, 1.8.0, 1.9.0, 1.10.0, 1.11.0, 1.14.0
  • Oracle BerkeleyJE 7.5.11
  • Elasticsearch 6.0.1, 6.6.0, 7.6.2
  • Apache Lucene 7.0.0
  • Apache Solr 7.0.0
  • Apache TinkerPop 3.4.6
  • Java 1.8

Changes

For more information on features and bug fixes in 0.5.3, see the GitHub milestone:

Assets

Version 0.5.2 (Release Date: May 3, 2020)

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.janusgraph</groupId>
    <artifactId>janusgraph-core</artifactId>
    <version>0.5.2</version>
</dependency>

compile "org.janusgraph:janusgraph-core:0.5.2"

Tested Compatibility:

  • Apache Cassandra 2.2.10, 3.0.14, 3.11.0
  • Apache HBase 1.2.6, 1.3.1, 1.4.10, 2.1.5
  • Google Bigtable 1.3.0, 1.4.0, 1.5.0, 1.6.0, 1.7.0, 1.8.0, 1.9.0, 1.10.0, 1.11.0, 1.14.0
  • Oracle BerkeleyJE 7.5.11
  • Elasticsearch 6.0.1, 6.6.0, 7.6.2
  • Apache Lucene 7.0.0
  • Apache Solr 7.0.0
  • Apache TinkerPop 3.4.6
  • Java 1.8

For more information on features and bug fixes in 0.5.2, see the GitHub milestone:

Upgrade Instructions

ElasticSearch index store names cache now enabled for any amount of indexes per store

In JanusGraph version 0.5.0 and 0.5.1 all ElasticSearch index store names are cached for efficient index store name retrieval and the cache is disabled if there are more than 50000 indexes available per index store. From JanusGraph version 0.5.2 index store names cache isn't limited to 50000 but instead can be disabled by using a new added parameter enable_index_names_cache. It is still recommended to disable index store names cache if more than 50000 indexes are used per index store.

Version 0.5.1 (Release Date: March 25, 2020)

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.janusgraph</groupId>
    <artifactId>janusgraph-core</artifactId>
    <version>0.5.1</version>
</dependency>

compile "org.janusgraph:janusgraph-core:0.5.1"

Tested Compatibility:

  • Apache Cassandra 2.2.10, 3.0.14, 3.11.0
  • Apache HBase 1.2.6, 1.3.1, 1.4.10, 2.1.5
  • Google Bigtable 1.3.0, 1.4.0, 1.5.0, 1.6.0, 1.7.0, 1.8.0, 1.9.0, 1.10.0, 1.11.0, 1.14.0
  • Oracle BerkeleyJE 7.5.11
  • Elasticsearch 6.0.1, 6.6.0, 7.6.1
  • Apache Lucene 7.0.0
  • Apache Solr 7.0.0
  • Apache TinkerPop 3.4.6
  • Java 1.8

For more information on features and bug fixes in 0.5.1, see the GitHub milestone:

Upgrade Instructions

Two Distributed package is splitted into two version

The default version of the distribution package does no longer contain the janusgraph.sh. This includes a packaged version of cassandra and elasticsearch. If you want to have janusgraph.sh, you have to download distribution with the suffix -full.

Gremlin Server distributed with the release uses inmemory storage backend and no search backend by default

Gremlin Server is by default configured for the inmemory storage backend and no search backend when started with bin/gremlin-server.sh.
You can provide configuration for another storage backend and/or search backend by providing a path to the appropriate configuration as a second parameter (./bin/gremlin-server.sh ./conf/gremlin-server/[...].yaml).

Version 0.5.0 (Release Date: March 10, 2020)

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.janusgraph</groupId>
    <artifactId>janusgraph-core</artifactId>
    <version>0.5.0</version>
</dependency>

compile "org.janusgraph:janusgraph-core:0.5.0"

Tested Compatibility:

  • Apache Cassandra 2.2.10, 3.0.14, 3.11.0
  • Apache HBase 1.2.6, 1.3.1, 1.4.10, 2.1.5
  • Google Bigtable 1.3.0, 1.4.0, 1.5.0, 1.6.0, 1.7.0, 1.8.0, 1.9.0, 1.10.0, 1.11.0
  • Oracle BerkeleyJE 7.5.11
  • Elasticsearch 6.0.1, 6.6.0, 7.6.1
  • Apache Lucene 7.0.0
  • Apache Solr 7.0.0
  • Apache TinkerPop 3.4.6
  • Java 1.8

For more information on features and bug fixes in 0.5.0, see the GitHub milestone:

Upgrade Instructions

Distributed package is renamed

The distribution has no longer the suffix -hadoop2.

Reorder dependency of Hadoop

Hadoop is now a dependency of supported backends. Therefore, MapReduceIndexJobs is now split up into different classes:

Old Function New Function
MapReduceIndexJobs.cassandraRepair CassandraMapReduceIndexJobsUtils.repair
MapReduceIndexJobs.cassandraRemove CassandraMapReduceIndexJobsUtils.remove
MapReduceIndexJobs.cqlRepair CqlMapReduceIndexJobsUtils.repair
MapReduceIndexJobs.cqlRemove CqlMapReduceIndexJobsUtils.remove
MapReduceIndexJobs.hbaseRepair HBaseMapReduceIndexJobsUtils.repair
MapReduceIndexJobs.hbaseRemove HBaseMapReduceIndexJobsUtils.remove

Note

Now, you can easily support for any backend.

Warning

Cassandra3InputFormat is replaced by CqlInputFormat

ElasticSearch: Upgrade from 6.6.0 to 7.6.1 and drop support for 5.x version

The ElasticSearch version has been changed to 7.6.1 which removes support for max-retry-timeout option. That is why this option no longer available in JanusGraph. Users should be aware that by default JanusGraph setups maximum open scroll contexts to maximum value of 2147483647 with the parameter setup-max-open-scroll-contexts for ElasticSearch 7.y. This option can be disabled and updated manually in ElasticSearch but you should be aware that ElasticSearch starting from version 7 has a default limit of 500 opened contexts which most likely be reached by the normal usage of JanusGraph with ElasticSearch. By default deprecated mappings are disabled in ElasticSearch version 7. If you are upgrading your ElasticSearch index backend to version 7 from lower versions, it is recommended to reindex your JanusGraph indices to not use mappings. If you are unable to reindex your indices you may setup parameter use-mapping-for-es7 to true which will tell JanusGraph to use mapping types for ElasticSearch version 7. Due to the drop of support for 5.x version, deprecated multi-type indices are no more supported. Parameter use-deprecated-multitype-index is no more supported by JanusGraph.

BerkeleyDB

BerkeleyDB storage configured with SHARED_CACHE for better memory usage.

Default logging location has changed

If you are using janusgraph.sh to start your instance, the default logging has been changed from log to logs

Version 0.4.1 (Release Date: January 14, 2020)

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.janusgraph</groupId>
    <artifactId>janusgraph-core</artifactId>
    <version>0.4.1</version>
</dependency>

compile "org.janusgraph:janusgraph-core:0.4.1"

Tested Compatibility:

  • Apache Cassandra 2.2.10, 3.0.14, 3.11.0
  • Apache HBase 1.2.6, 1.3.1, 1.4.10, 2.1.5
  • Google Bigtable 1.3.0, 1.4.0, 1.5.0, 1.6.0, 1.7.0, 1.8.0, 1.9.0, 1.10.0, 1.11.0
  • Oracle BerkeleyJE 7.5.11
  • Elasticsearch 5.6.14, 6.0.1, 6.6.0
  • Apache Lucene 7.0.0
  • Apache Solr 7.0.0
  • Apache TinkerPop 3.4.4
  • Java 1.8

For more information on features and bug fixes in 0.4.1, see the GitHub milestone:

Upgrade Instructions

TinkerPop: Upgrade from 3.4.1 to 3.4.4

Adding multiple values in the same query to a new vertex property without explicitly defined type (i.e. using Automatic Schema Maker to create a property type) requires explicit usage of VertexProperty.Cardinality for each call (only for the first query which defines a property) if the VertexProperty.Cardinality is different than VertexProperty.Cardinality.single.

Version 0.4.0 (Release Date: July 1, 2019)

Legacy documentation: https://old-docs.janusgraph.org/0.4.0/index.html

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.janusgraph</groupId>
    <artifactId>janusgraph-core</artifactId>
    <version>0.4.0</version>
</dependency>

compile "org.janusgraph:janusgraph-core:0.4.0"

Tested Compatibility:

  • Apache Cassandra 2.2.10, 3.0.14, 3.11.0
  • Apache HBase 1.2.6, 1.3.1, 1.4.10, 2.1.5
  • Google Bigtable 1.3.0, 1.4.0, 1.5.0, 1.6.0, 1.7.0, 1.8.0, 1.9.0, 1.10.0, 1.11.0
  • Oracle BerkeleyJE 7.5.11
  • Elasticsearch 5.6.14, 6.0.1, 6.6.0
  • Apache Lucene 7.0.0
  • Apache Solr 7.0.0
  • Apache TinkerPop 3.4.1
  • Java 1.8

For more information on features and bug fixes in 0.4.0, see the GitHub milestone:

Upgrade Instructions

HBase: Upgrade from 1.2 to 2.1

The version of HBase that is included in the distribution of JanusGraph was upgraded from 1.2.6 to 2.1.5. HBase 2.x client is not fully backward compatible with HBase 1.x server. Users who operate their own HBase version 1.x cluster may need to upgrade their cluster to version 2.x. Optionally users may build their own distribution of JanusGraph which includes HBase 1.x from source with the maven flags -Dhbase.profile -Phbase1.

Cassandra: Upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2

The version of Cassandra that is included in the distribution of JanusGraph was upgraded from 2.1.20 to 2.2.13. Refer to the upgrade documentation of Cassandra for detailed instructions to perform this upgrade. Users who operate their own Cassandra cluster instead of using Cassandra distributed together with JanusGraph are not affected by this upgrade. This also does not change the different versions of Cassandra that are supported by JanusGraph (see <> for a detailed list of the supported versions).

BerkeleyDB : Upgrade from 7.4 to 7.5

The BerkeleyDB version has been updated, and it contains changes to the file format stored on disk (see the BerkeleyDB changelog for reference). This file format change is forward compatible with previous versions of BerkeleyDB, so existing graph data stored with JanusGraph can be read in. However, once the data has been read in with the newer version of BerkeleyDB, those files can no longer be read by the older version. Users are encouraged to backup the BerkeleyDB storage directory before attempting to use it with the JanusGraph release.

Solr: Compatible Lucene version changed from 5.0.0 to 7.0.0 in distributed config

The JanusGraph distribution contains a solrconfig.xml file that can be used to configure Solr. The value luceneMatchVersion in this config that tells Solr to behave according to that Lucene version was changed from 5.0.0 to 7.0.0 as that is the default version currently used by JanusGraph. Users should generally set this value to the version of their Solr installation. If the config distributed by JanusGraph is used for an existing Solr installation that used a lower version before (like 5.0.0 from a previous versions of this file), it is highly recommended that a re-indexing is performed.

Version 0.3.3 (Release Date: January 11, 2020)

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.janusgraph</groupId>
    <artifactId>janusgraph-core</artifactId>
    <version>0.3.3</version>
</dependency>

compile "org.janusgraph:janusgraph-core:0.3.3"

Tested Compatibility:

  • Apache Cassandra 2.1.20, 2.2.10, 3.0.14, 3.11.0
  • Apache HBase 1.2.6, 1.3.1, 1.4.4
  • Google Bigtable 1.0.0, 1.1.2, 1.2.0, 1.3.0, 1.4.0
  • Oracle BerkeleyJE 7.4.5
  • Elasticsearch 1.7.6, 2.4.6, 5.6.5, 6.0.1
  • Apache Lucene 7.0.0
  • Apache Solr 5.5.4, 6.6.1, 7.0.0
  • Apache TinkerPop 3.3.3
  • Java 1.8

For more information on features and bug fixes in 0.3.3, see the GitHub milestone:

Version 0.3.2 (Release Date: June 16, 2019)

Legacy documentation: https://old-docs.janusgraph.org/0.3.2/index.html

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.janusgraph</groupId>
    <artifactId>janusgraph-core</artifactId>
    <version>0.3.2</version>
</dependency>

compile "org.janusgraph:janusgraph-core:0.3.2"

Tested Compatibility:

  • Apache Cassandra 2.1.20, 2.2.10, 3.0.14, 3.11.0
  • Apache HBase 1.2.6, 1.3.1, 1.4.4
  • Google Bigtable 1.0.0, 1.1.2, 1.2.0, 1.3.0, 1.4.0
  • Oracle BerkeleyJE 7.4.5
  • Elasticsearch 1.7.6, 2.4.6, 5.6.5, 6.0.1
  • Apache Lucene 7.0.0
  • Apache Solr 5.5.4, 6.6.1, 7.0.0
  • Apache TinkerPop 3.3.3
  • Java 1.8

For more information on features and bug fixes in 0.3.2, see the GitHub milestone:

Version 0.3.1 (Release Date: October 2, 2018)

Legacy documentation: https://old-docs.janusgraph.org/0.3.1/index.html

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.janusgraph</groupId>
    <artifactId>janusgraph-core</artifactId>
    <version>0.3.1</version>
</dependency>

compile "org.janusgraph:janusgraph-core:0.3.1"

Tested Compatibility:

  • Apache Cassandra 2.1.20, 2.2.10, 3.0.14, 3.11.0
  • Apache HBase 1.2.6, 1.3.1, 1.4.4
  • Google Bigtable 1.0.0, 1.1.2, 1.2.0, 1.3.0, 1.4.0
  • Oracle BerkeleyJE 7.4.5
  • Elasticsearch 1.7.6, 2.4.6, 5.6.5, 6.0.1
  • Apache Lucene 7.0.0
  • Apache Solr 5.5.4, 6.6.1, 7.0.0
  • Apache TinkerPop 3.3.3
  • Java 1.8

For more information on features and bug fixes in 0.3.1, see the GitHub milestone:

Version 0.3.0 (Release Date: July 31, 2018)

Legacy documentation: https://old-docs.janusgraph.org/0.3.0/index.html

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.janusgraph</groupId>
    <artifactId>janusgraph-core</artifactId>
    <version>0.3.0</version>
</dependency>

compile "org.janusgraph:janusgraph-core:0.3.0"

Tested Compatibility:

  • Apache Cassandra 2.1.20, 2.2.10, 3.0.14, 3.11.0
  • Apache HBase 1.2.6, 1.3.1, 1.4.4
  • Google Bigtable 1.0.0, 1.1.2, 1.2.0, 1.3.0, 1.4.0
  • Oracle BerkeleyJE 7.4.5
  • Elasticsearch 1.7.6, 2.4.6, 5.6.5, 6.0.1
  • Apache Lucene 7.0.0
  • Apache Solr 5.5.4, 6.6.1, 7.0.0
  • Apache TinkerPop 3.3.3
  • Java 1.8

For more information on features and bug fixes in 0.3.0, see the GitHub milestone:

Upgrade Instructions

Important

You should back-up your data prior to attempting an upgrade! Also please note that once an upgrade has been completed you will no longer be able to connect to your graph with client versions prior to 0.3.0.

JanusGraph 0.3.0 implements Schema Constraints which made it necessary to also introduce the concept of a schema version. There is a check to prevent client connections that either expect a different schema version or have no concept of a schema version. To perform an upgrade, the configuration option graph.allow-upgrade=true must be set on each graph you wish to upgrade. The graph must be opened with a 0.3.0 or greater version of JanusGraph since older versions have no concept of graph.storage-version and will not allow for it to be set.

Example excerpt from janusgraph.properties file 

# JanusGraph configuration sample: Cassandra over a socket
#
# This file connects to a Cassandra daemon running on localhost via
# Thrift.  Cassandra must already be started before starting JanusGraph
# with this file.

# This option should be removed as soon as the upgrade is complete. Otherwise if this file
# is used in the future to connect to a different graph it could cause an unintended upgrade.
graph.allow-upgrade=true

gremlin.graph=org.janusgraph.core.JanusGraphFactory

# The primary persistence provider used by JanusGraph.  This is required.
# It should be set one of JanusGraph's built-in shorthand names for its
# standard storage backends (shorthands: berkeleyje, cassandrathrift,
# cassandra, astyanax, embeddedcassandra, cql, hbase, inmemory) or to the
# full package and classname of a custom/third-party StoreManager
# implementation.
#
# Default:    (no default value)
# Data Type:  String
# Mutability: LOCAL
storage.backend=cassandrathrift

# The hostname or comma-separated list of hostnames of storage backend
# servers.  This is only applicable to some storage backends, such as
# cassandra and hbase.
#
# Default:    127.0.0.1
# Data Type:  class java.lang.String[]
# Mutability: LOCAL
storage.hostname=127.0.0.1

If graph.allow-upgrade is set to true on a graph graph.storage-version and graph.janusgraph-version will automatically be upgraded to match the version level of the server, or local client, that is opening the graph. You can verify the upgrade was successful by opening the management API and validating the values of graph.storage-version and graph.janusgraph-version.

Once the storage version has been set you should remove graph.allow-upgrade=true from your properties file and reopen your graph to ensure that the upgrade was successful.

Version 0.2.3 (Release Date: May 21, 2019)

Legacy documentation: https://old-docs.janusgraph.org/0.2.3/index.html

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.janusgraph</groupId>
    <artifactId>janusgraph-core</artifactId>
    <version>0.2.3</version>
</dependency>

compile "org.janusgraph:janusgraph-core:0.2.3"

Tested Compatibility:

  • Apache Cassandra 2.1.20, 2.2.10, 3.0.14, 3.11.0
  • Apache HBase 0.98.24-hadoop2, 1.2.6, 1.3.1
  • Google Bigtable 1.0.0
  • Oracle BerkeleyJE 7.3.7
  • Elasticsearch 1.7.6, 2.4.6, 5.6.5, 6.0.1
  • Apache Lucene 7.0.0
  • Apache Solr 5.5.4, 6.6.1, 7.0.0
  • Apache TinkerPop 3.2.9
  • Java 1.8

For more information on features and bug fixes in 0.2.3, see the GitHub milestone:

Version 0.2.2 (Release Date: October 9, 2018)

Legacy documentation: https://old-docs.janusgraph.org/0.2.2/index.html

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.janusgraph</groupId>
    <artifactId>janusgraph-core</artifactId>
    <version>0.2.2</version>
</dependency>

compile "org.janusgraph:janusgraph-core:0.2.2"

Tested Compatibility:

  • Apache Cassandra 2.1.20, 2.2.10, 3.0.14, 3.11.0
  • Apache HBase 0.98.24-hadoop2, 1.2.6, 1.3.1
  • Google Bigtable 1.0.0
  • Oracle BerkeleyJE 7.3.7
  • Elasticsearch 1.7.6, 2.4.6, 5.6.5, 6.0.1
  • Apache Lucene 7.0.0
  • Apache Solr 5.5.4, 6.6.1, 7.0.0
  • Apache TinkerPop 3.2.9
  • Java 1.8

For more information on features and bug fixes in 0.2.2, see the GitHub milestone:

Version 0.2.1 (Release Date: July 9, 2018)

Legacy documentation: https://old-docs.janusgraph.org/0.2.1/index.html

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.janusgraph</groupId>
    <artifactId>janusgraph-core</artifactId>
    <version>0.2.1</version>
</dependency>

compile "org.janusgraph:janusgraph-core:0.2.1"

Tested Compatibility:

  • Apache Cassandra 2.1.20, 2.2.10, 3.0.14, 3.11.0
  • Apache HBase 0.98.24-hadoop2, 1.2.6, 1.3.1
  • Google Bigtable 1.0.0
  • Oracle BerkeleyJE 7.3.7
  • Elasticsearch 1.7.6, 2.4.6, 5.6.5, 6.0.1
  • Apache Lucene 7.0.0
  • Apache Solr 5.5.4, 6.6.1, 7.0.0
  • Apache TinkerPop 3.2.9
  • Java 1.8

For more information on features and bug fixes in 0.2.1, see the GitHub milestone:

Upgrade Instructions

HBase TTL

In JanusGraph 0.2.0, time-to-live (TTL) support was added for HBase storage backend. In order to utilize the TTL capability on HBase, the graph timestamps need to be MILLI. If the graph.timestamps property is not explicitly set to MILLI, the default is MICRO in JanusGraph 0.2.0, which does not work for HBase TTL. Since the graph.timestamps property is FIXED, a new graph needs to be created to make any change of the graph.timestamps property effective.

Version 0.2.0 (Release Date: October 11, 2017)

Legacy documentation: https://old-docs.janusgraph.org/0.2.0/index.html

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.janusgraph</groupId>
    <artifactId>janusgraph-core</artifactId>
    <version>0.2.0</version>
</dependency>

compile "org.janusgraph:janusgraph-core:0.2.0"

Tested Compatibility:

  • Apache Cassandra 2.1.18, 2.2.10, 3.0.14, 3.11.0
  • Apache HBase 0.98.24-hadoop2, 1.2.6, 1.3.1
  • Google Bigtable 1.0.0-pre3
  • Oracle BerkeleyJE 7.3.7
  • Elasticsearch 1.7.6, 2.4.6, 5.6.2, 6.0.0-rc1
  • Apache Lucene 7.0.0
  • Apache Solr 5.5.4, 6.6.1, 7.0.0
  • Apache TinkerPop 3.2.6
  • Java 1.8

For more information on features and bug fixes in 0.2.0, see the GitHub milestone:

Upgrade Instructions

Elasticsearch

JanusGraph 0.1.z is compatible with Elasticsearch 1.5.z. There were several configuration options available, including transport client, node client, and legacy configuration track. JanusGraph 0.2.0 is compatible with Elasticsearch versions from 1.y through 6.y, however it offers only a single configuration option using the REST client.

Transport client

The TRANSPORT_CLIENT interface has been replaced with REST_CLIENT. When migrating an existing graph to JanusGraph 0.2.0, the interface property must be set when connecting to the graph: 

index.search.backend=elasticsearch
index.search.elasticsearch.interface=REST_CLIENT
index.search.hostname=127.0.0.1

After connecting to the graph, the property update can be made permanent by making the change with JanusGraphManagement: 

mgmt = graph.openManagement()
mgmt.set("index.search.elasticsearch.interface", "REST_CLIENT")
mgmt.commit()

Node client

A node client with JanusGraph can be configured in a few ways. If the node client was configured as a client-only or non-data node, follow the steps from the transport client section to connect to the existing cluster using the REST_CLIENT instead. If the node client was a data node (local-mode), then convert it into a standalone Elasticsearch node, running in a separate JVM from your application process. This can be done by using the node’s configuration from the JanusGraph configuration to start a standalone Elasticsearch 1.5.z node. For example, we start with these JanusGraph 0.1.z properties:

index.search.backend=elasticsearch
index.search.elasticsearch.interface=NODE
index.search.conf-file=es-client.yml
index.search.elasticsearch.ext.node.name=alice

where the configuration file es-client.yml has properties:

node.data: true
path.data: /var/lib/elasticsearch/data
path.work: /var/lib/elasticsearch/work
path.logs: /var/log/elasticsearch

The properties found in the configuration file es-client.yml and the index.search.elasticsearch.ext.* properties can be inserted into $ES_HOME/config/elasticsearch.yml so that a standalone Elasticsearch 1.5.z node can be started with the same properties. Keep in mind that if any path locations have relative paths, those values may need to be updated appropriately. Once the standalone Elasticsearch node is started, follow the directions in the transport client section to complete the migration to the REST_CLIENT interface. Note that the index.search.conf-file and index.search.elasticsearch.ext.* properties are not used by the REST_CLIENT interface, so they can be removed from the configuration properties.

Legacy configuration

The legacy configuration track was not recommended in JanusGraph 0.1.z and is no longer supported in JanusGraph 0.2.0. Users should refer to the previous sections and migrate to the REST_CLIENT.

Version 0.1.1 (Release Date: May 11, 2017)

Documentation: https://old-docs.janusgraph.org/0.1.1/index.html

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.janusgraph</groupId>
    <artifactId>janusgraph-core</artifactId>
    <version>0.1.1</version>
</dependency>

compile "org.janusgraph:janusgraph-core:0.1.1"

Tested Compatibility:

  • Apache Cassandra 2.1.9
  • Apache HBase 0.98.8-hadoop2, 1.0.3, 1.1.8, 1.2.4
  • Google Bigtable 0.9.5.1
  • Oracle BerkeleyJE 7.3.7
  • Elasticsearch 1.5.1
  • Apache Lucene 4.10.4
  • Apache Solr 5.2.1
  • Apache TinkerPop 3.2.3
  • Java 1.8

For more information on features and bug fixes in 0.1.1, see the GitHub milestone:

Version 0.1.0 (Release Date: April 11, 2017)

Documentation: https://old-docs.janusgraph.org/0.1.0/index.html

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.janusgraph</groupId>
    <artifactId>janusgraph-core</artifactId>
    <version>0.1.0</version>
</dependency>

compile "org.janusgraph:janusgraph-core:0.1.0"

Tested Compatibility:

  • Apache Cassandra 2.1.9
  • Apache HBase 0.98.8-hadoop2, 1.0.3, 1.1.8, 1.2.4
  • Google Bigtable 0.9.5.1
  • Oracle BerkeleyJE 7.3.7
  • Elasticsearch 1.5.1
  • Apache Lucene 4.10.4
  • Apache Solr 5.2.1
  • Apache TinkerPop 3.2.3
  • Java 1.8

Features added since version Titan 1.0.0:

  • TinkerPop 3.2.3 compatibility

    • Includes update to Spark 1.6.1

  • Query optimizations: JanusGraphStep folds in HasId and HasContainers can be folded in even mid-traversal

  • Support Google Cloud Bigtable as a backend over the HBase interface

  • Compatibility with newer versions of backend and index stores

    • HBase 1.2

    • BerkeleyJE 7.3.7

  • Includes a number of bug fixes and optimizations

For more information on features and bug fixes in 0.1.0, see the GitHub milestone:

Upgrade Instructions

JanusGraph is based on the latest commit to the titan11 branch of Titan repo.

JanusGraph has made the following changes to Titan, so you will need to adjust your code and configuration accordingly:

  1. module names: titan-* are now janusgraph-*

  2. package names: com.thinkaurelius.titan are now org.janusgraph

  3. class names: Titan* are now JanusGraph* except in cases where this would duplicate a word, e.g., TitanGraph is simply JanusGraph rather than JanusGraphGraph

For more information on how to configure JanusGraph to read data which had previously been written by Titan refer to Migration from titan.