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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Citus vs. Kinetica vs. SiriDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Citus vs. Kinetica vs. SiriDB vs. Titan

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  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.
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsOpen Source Time Series DBMSTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.citusdata.comwww.kinetica.comsiridb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.citusdata.comdocs.kinetica.comdocs.siridb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperKineticaCesbitAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20192010201220172012
Current release8.1, December 20187.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC, C++CJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoNumeric datayes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelsimple rights management via user accountsUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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