DBMS > ArcadeDB vs. Hypertable vs. MySQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. Hypertable vs. MySQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Titan

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Widely used open source RDBMS

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.02
Rank	#366	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#53	Key-value stores
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

arcadedb.com

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Arcade Data

Hypertable Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP

formerly Sybase

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2021

2009

1995

1992

2012

Current release

September 2021

0.9.8.11, March 2016

8.4.0, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

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++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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