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DBMS > Graphite vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. Titan vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. Titan vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  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 WhisperDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#371  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperChris DavisOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSTS Soft SCAurelius, owned by DataStaxTranswarp
Initial release2006200920112012
Current release3.2.0, December 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonErlangC#Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
WindowsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlynoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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
Secondary indexesnorestrictednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
OpenCypher
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlangnoyes
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"noneyes infovia pluggable storage backendshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storednoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, using Riak SecuritynoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serveryes

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