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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Titan vs. ToroDB

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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.

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Widely used in-process key-value store

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Graph DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

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

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Alibaba

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

8Kdata

Initial release

1994

2012

2016

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Access rights for users and roles

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