DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. H2GIS vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. H2GIS vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB 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

Spatial extension of H2

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.h2gis.org

sphinxsearch.com

terminusdb.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

sphinxsearch.com/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Amazon

CNRS

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2012

2013

2001

2018

2012

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

JavaScript
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Graph Partitioning

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

none

Journaling Streams

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

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

in-memory journaling

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

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

based on H2

Role-based access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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