DBMS > atoti vs. GridGain vs. Snowflake vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. GridGain vs. Snowflake 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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

atoti.io

www.gridgain.com

www.snowflake.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

ActiveViam

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2007

2014

2012

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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 graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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