DBMS > BaseX vs. OpenSearch vs. Titan vs. Warp 10 vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. OpenSearch vs. Titan vs. Warp 10 vs. Yaacomo

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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.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

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

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

www.warp10.io

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

opensearch.org/docs/latest

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Amazon Web Services

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

SenX

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2007

2021

2012

2015

2009

Current release

10.7, August 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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