DBMS > H2 vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ vs. Titan

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

www.snowflake.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TempoIQ

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2005

2014

2012

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

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

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

simple authentication-based access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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