DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OrientDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OrientDB vs. Titan

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be 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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

orientdb.org

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2016

2010

2014

2010

2012

Current release

1703

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

Java, Javascript

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

could be achieved with distributed queries

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

atomic operations within a document possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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