DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. HugeGraph vs. MariaDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. HugeGraph vs. MariaDB 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

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.13
Rank	#179	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	5.93
Rank	#56	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

docs.datastax.com

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Franz Inc.

DataStax

Baidu

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2004

2011

2018

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2012

Current release

8.0, December 2023

6.8, April 2020

0.9

11.3.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

bulk load of XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Groovy
Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via hugegraph-spark

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

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

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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