DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Heroic vs. LevelDB vs. Titan vs. Transbase vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. LevelDB vs. Titan vs. Transbase vs. Typesense

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  Xexclude from comparison
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.
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#210  Overall
#14  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­google/­leveldbgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmltypesense.org
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikiwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmltypesense.org/­docs
DeveloperSpotifyGoogleAurelius, owned by DataStaxTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20142011201219872015
Current release1.23, February 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0commercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free infopre-defined schema optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Clojure
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyesno
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
HeroicLevelDBTitanTransbaseTypesense
DB-Engines blog posts

Graph DBMS increased their popularity by 500% within the last 2 years
3 March 2015, Paul Andlinger

Graph DBMSs are gaining in popularity faster than any other database category
21 January 2014, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

Review: Google Bigtable scales with ease
7 September 2016, InfoWorld

provided by Google News

Pliops unveils XDP-Rocks for RocksDB – Blocks and Files
19 October 2022, Blocks & Files

Microsoft Teams stores auth tokens as cleartext in Windows, Linux, Macs
14 September 2022, BleepingComputer

XanMod, Liquorix Kernels Offer Some Advantages On AMD Ryzen 5 Notebook
26 July 2021, Phoronix

Threat Thursday: BlackGuard Infostealer Rises from Russian Underground Markets
21 April 2022, BlackBerry Blog

Rust-Based Info Stealers Abuse GitHub Codespaces
19 May 2023, Trend Micro

provided by Google News

Titan Graph Database Integration with DynamoDB: World-class Performance, Availability, and Scale for New Workloads
20 August 2015, All Things Distributed

Amazon DynamoDB Storage Backend for Titan: Distributed Graph Database | Amazon Web Services
24 August 2015, AWS Blog

JanusGraph Picks Up Where TitanDB Left Off
13 January 2017, Datanami

DataStax acquires Aurelius, the startup behind the Titan graph database
3 February 2015, VentureBeat

DSE Graph review: Graph database does double duty
14 November 2019, InfoWorld

provided by Google News

Laravel Scout Adds Typesense, A Lightening-fast Open-source Search
17 January 2024, Laravel News

Elasticsearch alternatives: 8 to consider after the license change
11 March 2021, TechGenix

5 Recipe Search Engines to Cook Based on Time, Budget, & Ingredients - MUO
19 April 2022, MakeUseOf

Olivia Munn & John Mulaney's Toddler Malcolm Is a Style Icon
5 May 2023, SheKnows

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

SingleStore logo

The database to transact, analyze and contextualize your data in real time.
Try it today.

Present your product here