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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.

Widely used in-process key-value store

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

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

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.88
Rank	#130	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#351	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

SenX

Initial release

2007

1994

2012

2015

Current release

11.2, August 2024

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

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

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