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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Google BigQuery vs. Titan vs. UniData,UniVerse

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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.

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

basex.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Google

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Rocket Software

Initial release

2007

2010

2012

1985

Current release

11.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Immediate Consistency

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

multiple readers, single writer

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

configurable

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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