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DBMS > EXASOL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrientDB vs. Snowflake vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrientDB vs. Snowflake vs. Titan

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  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.
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantorientdb.orgwww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcescloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmldocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperExasolIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSnowflake Computing Inc.Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20002010201020142012
Current release3.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language, no joinsyesno
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJava, Javascriptuser defined functionsyes
TriggersyesyesHooksno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingyesyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyesno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes inforelationship in graphsyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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