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DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TerminusDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TerminusDB vs. Titan

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  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 scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantterminusdb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software FoundationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataChemist Ltd.Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2014201020182012
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangProlog, RustJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingGraph Partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streamsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole-based access controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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