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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NuoDB vs. TimesTen vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NuoDB vs. TimesTen vs. Titan

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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.
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsAn in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.15
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.87
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdoc.nuodb.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperEsgynIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Oracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20152010201319982012
Current releaseRelease 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaErlangC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJava, SQLPL/SQLyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infotunable commit protocolACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes 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.nonoyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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