DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Interbase vs. Snowflake vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Interbase vs. Snowflake vs. Titan

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Name

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.

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.snowflake.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Embarcadero

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2016

1984

2014

2012

Current release

2.1, December 2018

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Interbase Change Views

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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