DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB 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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
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Score	0.29
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

rethinkdb.com

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

rethinkdb.com/docs

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cloudflare

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Simer Plaha

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2012

2018

2009

2018

2012

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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