DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. Titan

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore 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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

rocksdb.org

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Teradata

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2016

2013

2005

2012

Current release

5.10, January 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

R packages

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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