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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. RethinkDB 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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#41	Graph DBMS

Score	2.30
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

galaxybase.com

rethinkdb.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2017

2009

2012

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

Role-based access control

yes

users and table-level permissions

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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