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System Properties Comparison atoti vs. BigchainDB vs. Riak KV vs. Splice Machine vs. Titan

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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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

atoti.io

www.bigchaindb.com

splicemachine.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

ActiveViam

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Splice Machine

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2016

2009

2014

2012

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Erlang

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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