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DBMS > Heroic vs. SpaceTime vs. Speedb vs. Titan vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. SpaceTime vs. Speedb vs. Titan vs. ToroDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  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.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.speedb.iogithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titangithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperSpotifyMireoSpeedbAurelius, owned by DataStax8Kdata
Initial release20142020202020122016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementednono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFixed-grid hypercubeshorizontal partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)yesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesACIDno
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess rights for users and roles
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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