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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. STSdb vs. Titan vs. XTDB

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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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Chris Davis

STS Soft SC

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2006

2011

2012

2019

Current release

4.0.8, September 2015

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

.NET Client API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Clojure
Java
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes, each node contains all data

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

none

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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