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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. STSdb vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. STSdb vs. Titan

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperCloud-based data warehousing serviceKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoregraphite.readthedocs.iogithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperAlibabaChris DavisIBMSTS Soft SCAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20162006201420112012
Current release4.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonC#Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
hostedWindowsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPL/SQL, SQL PLnoyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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