DBMS > FeatureBase vs. Hyprcubd vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. Hyprcubd vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Titan

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

www.featurebase.com

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Hyprcubd, Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2017

2010

2014

2012

Current release

2022, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes

JSON types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

gRPC (https)

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session 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

yes

atomic operations within a document possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using Linux fsync

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

token access

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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