DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Couchbase vs. SWC-DB vs. Titan vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Couchbase vs. SWC-DB vs. Titan vs. Yanza

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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.

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

In-memory caching system

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

cachelot.io

www.couchbase.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Yanza

Initial release

2015

2011

2020

2012

2015

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++

Clojure
Java
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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