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DBMS > Graphite vs. MonetDB vs. Rockset vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. MonetDB vs. Rockset vs. Titan

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
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.
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.monetdb.orgrockset.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.rockset.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperChris DavisMonetDB BVRocksetAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2006200420192012
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonCC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesdynamic typingyes
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.nono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP RESTJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Rnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tablesAutomatic shardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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