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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. SWC-DB vs. TerminusDB vs. Titan vs. Yaacomo

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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.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

terminusdb.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Spotify

Alex Kashirin

DataChemist Ltd.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2014

2020

2018

2012

2009

Current release

0.5, April 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

JavaScript
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

yes

via pluggable storage backends

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Journaling Streams

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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