DBMS > Axibase vs. OpenSearch vs. STSdb vs. Titan vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. OpenSearch vs. STSdb vs. Titan vs. ToroDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

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.

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Amazon Web Services

STS Soft SC

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

8Kdata

Initial release

2013

2021

2011

2012

2016

Current release

15585

2.5.0, January 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Aiven for OpenSearch: Fully managed open source search and analytics suite. Out-of-the-box integrations get you up and running in a couple of clicks.

Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
Java

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

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

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

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Access rights for users and roles

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
» more

Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
» more

Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
» more

Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.