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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. KairosDB vs. NSDb 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

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#296	Overall
	#134	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.featurebase.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

nsdb.io

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

kairosdb.github.io

nsdb.io/Architecture

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2017

2013

2017

2012

Current release

2022, May 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Java
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual 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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

simple password-based access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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