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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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Website

www.gbase.cn

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2004

2017

2012

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.5, January 2024

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C
Java

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

replication via a shared file system

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

Immediate Consistency

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Roles, resources, and access types

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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