DBMS > H2GIS vs. Quasardb vs. SAP HANA vs. TinkerGraph vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Quasardb vs. SAP HANA vs. TinkerGraph 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

Spatial extension of H2

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#327	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#344	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

quasar.ai

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

doc.quasar.ai/master

help.sap.com/hana

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

CNRS

quasardb

SAP

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2013

2009

2010

2009

2012

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Groovy
Java

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

by using LevelDB

yes

optional

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

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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