DBMS > Immudb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. PostGIS vs. TempoIQ vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Immudb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. PostGIS vs. TempoIQ vs. Titan

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

Description

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

postgis.net

tempoiq.com (offline)

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

docs.immudb.io

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

postgis.net/documentation

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Codenotary

Microsoft

TempoIQ

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2020

2014

2005

2012

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like syntax

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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 can be defined down to the item level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

simple authentication-based access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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