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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. Newts vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. Newts vs. Titan

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  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.
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTime Series DBMS based on CassandraTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.graphengine.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webopennms.github.io/­newtsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualgraphite.readthedocs.iogithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikigithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsMicrosoftChris DavisOpenNMS GroupAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20232010200620142012
Current release1.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++.NET and CPythonJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux.NETLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP REST
Java API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaClojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesnonoyes
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes 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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationnonoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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