DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Infobright vs. Sequoiadb vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Infobright vs. Sequoiadb 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

JavaScript DBMS library

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

aws.amazon.com/redshift

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2014

2012

2005

2013

2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

simple password-based access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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