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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. SpatiaLite vs. Titan

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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.

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Spatial extension of SQLite

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Embarcadero

Alessandro Furieri

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

1984

2008

2012

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

none

yes

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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