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DBMS > BaseX vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Titan

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  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.
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Document storeGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitebasex.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperBaseX GmbHGoogleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2007201520102012
Current release10.7, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnonoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerAtomic single-row operationsno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per databaseUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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