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

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

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  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.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTime 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 modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.53
Rank#258  Overall
#40  Document stores
#119  Relational DBMS
Score4.84
Rank#79  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#242  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.58
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroichelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffChris DavisSpotifySAP, formerly SybaseAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20142006201419942012
Current release16.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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 indexesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP API
Sockets
HQL (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 languagesJavaScriptJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesyes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexeryes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesSAP/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 systemnonenoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes 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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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