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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. ScyllaDB vs. STSdb vs. Titan vs. TypeDB

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
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.
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitekylin.apache.orgwww.scylladb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titantypedb.com
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docsdocs.scylladb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikitypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncScyllaDBSTS Soft SCAurelius, owned by DataStaxVaticle
Initial release20152015201120122016
Current release3.1.0, July 2020ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20244.0.8, September 20152.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxWindowsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)nonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
.NET Client APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesFor CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
C#
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Luanoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenoneyesMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoin-memory tablesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serveryes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Apache KylinScyllaDBSTSdbTitanTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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