DBMS > Blueflood vs. LevelDB vs. Snowflake vs. Titan vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. LevelDB vs. Snowflake vs. Titan vs. Valentina Server

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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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

github.com/google/leveldb

www.snowflake.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Rackspace

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2013

2011

2014

2012

1999

Current release

1.23, February 2021

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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, user roles and pluggable authentication

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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