DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. OpenEdge vs. RDFox vs. SAP HANA vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. OpenEdge vs. RDFox vs. SAP HANA vs. Titan

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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

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Application development environment with integrated database management system

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

help.sap.com/hana

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Elastic

Progress Software Corporation

Oxford Semantic Technologies

SAP

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2010

1984

2017

2010

2012

Current release

8.6, January 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

6.0, Septermber 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

RDF schemas

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
Java

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

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

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.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Roles, resources, and access types

yes

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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