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DBMS > Datomic vs. H2GIS vs. Quasardb vs. TinkerGraph vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. H2GIS vs. Quasardb vs. TinkerGraph vs. Titan

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
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.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitySpatial extension of H2Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APITitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.76
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.h2gis.orgquasar.aitinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlingithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedoc.quasar.ai/­mastergithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperCognitectCNRSquasardbAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20122013200920092012
Current release1.0.6735, June 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APITinkerPop 3Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Groovy
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infobased on H2nonoyes
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infobased on H2Source-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoby using LevelDBoptionalyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on H2Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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