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DBMS > Bangdb vs. Elasticsearch vs. Titan vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Elasticsearch vs. Titan vs. YottaDB

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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.
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.A fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.11
Rank#340  Overall
#48  Document stores
#33  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score123.81
Rank#9  Overall
#1  Search engines
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#311  Overall
#46  Key-value stores
Websitebangdb.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanyottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikiyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBElasticAurelius, owned by DataStaxYottaDB, LLC
Initial release2012201020122001
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20218.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesno
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 indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like query languagenoby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectoryes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes 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.yes, run db with in-memory only modeMemcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)User authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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