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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Titan vs. Ultipa

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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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#338	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

CCRi and others

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Ultipa

Initial release

2014

2010

2012

2019

Current release

5.0.1, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
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

depending on storage layer

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users can be defined per database

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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