DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. GigaSpaces vs. OpenSearch vs. RocksDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. GigaSpaces vs. OpenSearch vs. RocksDB 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

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Search engine

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.gigaspaces.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rocksdb.org

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Gigaspaces Technologies

Amazon Web Services

Facebook, Inc.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2015

2000

2021

2013

2012

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

15.5, September 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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