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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Linter vs. Titan vs. Yanza

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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.

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

RDBMS for high security requirements

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#368	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

linter.ru

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

yanza.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

relex.ru

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Yanza

Initial release

2010

1990

2012

2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Clojure
Java
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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Recent citations in the news

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