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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. Heroic vs. SAP IQ vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AlaSQL vs. Heroic vs. SAP IQ vs. Titan

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS libraryTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#333  Overall
#30  Graph DBMS
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.27
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphalasql.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlspotify.github.io/­heroichelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSpotifySAP, formerly SybaseAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20162014201419942012
Current release2.1, December 201816.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesno
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JavaScript APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesyes
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenoneShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexeryes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyesSAP/Sybase Replication Serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integrationyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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