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DBMS > Heroic vs. ObjectBox vs. Stardog vs. Titan vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. ObjectBox vs. Stardog vs. Titan vs. Tkrzw

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  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 ElasticSearchExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicobjectbox.iowww.stardog.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titandbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.objectbox.iodocs.stardog.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperSpotifyObjectBox LimitedStardog-UnionAurelius, owned by DataStaxMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20142017201020122020
Current release7.3.0, May 20200.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Servernono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Proprietary native APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javayesno
Triggersnonoyes infovia event handlersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneyes infovia pluggable storage backendsnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication in HA-Clusteryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes inforelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverno
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