DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. MaxDB vs. Riak TS vs. TimesTen vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. MaxDB vs. Riak TS vs. TimesTen 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

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

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Score	1.31
Rank	#159	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2018

1984

2015

1998

2012

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

none

Sharding

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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