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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Quasardb 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 embedded key-value store for Go.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

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Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#327	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

cloud.google.com/bigquery

quasar.ai

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Google

quasardb

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2013

2010

2009

2012

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

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

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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