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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Titan vs. VelocityDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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.Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score2.38
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#370  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
#19  Object oriented DBMS
Websitebasex.orgtitan.thinkaurelius.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikivelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperBaseX GmbHAurelius, owned by DataStaxVelocityDB Inc
Initial release200720122011
Current release10.6, May 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
.Net
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesno
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerBased on Windows Authentication

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