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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. MonetDB vs. Titan vs. Tkrzw vs. Yaacomo

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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.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#301	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.monetdb.org

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

dbmx.net/tkrzw

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

MonetDB BV

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Mikio Hirabayashi

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2004

2012

2020

2009

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

yes

via pluggable storage backends

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using specific database classes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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