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DBMS > Heroic vs. SpaceTime vs. Splice Machine vs. Titan vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. SpaceTime vs. Splice Machine vs. Titan vs. ToroDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  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.Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph 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
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.mireo.com/­spacetimesplicemachine.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titangithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperSpotifyMireoSplice MachineAurelius, owned by DataStax8Kdata
Initial release20142020201420122016
Current release3.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyesno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoJavayes
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFixed-grid hypercubesShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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 controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess rights for users and roles

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