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DBMS > Galaxybase vs. IRONdb vs. Titan vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. IRONdb vs. Titan vs. Tkrzw

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb 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.
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitegalaxybase.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titandbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Circonus LLC.Aurelius, owned by DataStaxMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release2017201720122020
Current releaseNov 20, November 2021V0.10.20, January 20180.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and JavaC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeStrong typed schemaschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
HTTP APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsyes, in Luayesno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyes infovia pluggable storage backendsnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes infoRelationships in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverno

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