DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere vs. SQLite vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere vs. SQLite 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

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.68
Rank	#231	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.sqlite.org

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SiteWhere

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2016

2009

2010

2000

2012

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

based on HBase

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

via file-system locks

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

yes, using Riak Security

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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