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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

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#348	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

machbase.com

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

machbase.com/dbms

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Mobiland AG

Machbase

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2018

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2012

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

V8.0, August 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

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

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

ACID

MVCC

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

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Recent citations in the news

Amazon DynamoDB Storage Backend for Titan: Distributed Graph Database
24 August 2015, AWS Blog

DataStax acquires Aurelius, the startup behind the Titan graph database
3 February 2015, VentureBeat

DSE Graph review: Graph database does double duty
14 November 2019, InfoWorld

Beyond Titan: The Evolution of DataStax’s New Graph Database
21 June 2016, Datanami

Database Deep Dives: JanusGraph
8 August 2019, IBM

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