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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. KeyDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. KeyDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. Titan

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  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.
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsA 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 modelEvent StoreKey-value storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
tinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlingithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comdocs.keydb.devgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2012201920092012
Current release21.2, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datepartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoby using the Redis Search modulenoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoTinkerPop 3Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
Groovy
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsoptionalyes 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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access control and ACLnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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