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DBMS > BaseX vs. Graphite vs. Newts vs. TDengine vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Graphite vs. Newts vs. TDengine vs. Titan

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTime Series DBMS based on CassandraTime Series DBMS and big data platformTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webopennms.github.io/­newtsgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggraphite.readthedocs.iogithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.tdengine.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperBaseX GmbHChris DavisOpenNMS GroupTDEngine, previously Taos DataAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20072006201420192012
Current release10.7, August 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP REST
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java 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
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonoyes, via alarm monitoringyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnonoyesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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BaseXGraphiteNewtsTDengineTitan
Specific characteristicsTDengineā„¢ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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