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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BoltDB 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

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

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Score	69.14
Rank	#17	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.55
Rank	#220	Overall
	#34	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/boltdb/bolt

titan.thinkaurelius.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Amazon

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2012

2013

2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

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

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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