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

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

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Graph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.mireo.com/­spacetimesurrealdb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titangithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicsurrealdb.com/­docsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperSpotifyMireoSurrealDB LtdAurelius, owned by DataStax8Kdata
Initial release20142020202220122016
Current releasev1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen 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++RustJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
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 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 Elasticsearchnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFixed-grid hypercubesyes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)yesSource-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 integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess rights for users and roles

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