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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. LeanXcale vs. searchxml 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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Graph DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#286	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.leanxcale.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

LeanXcale

informationpartners gmbh

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2013

2015

2012

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
Java
Scala

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

multiple readers, single writer

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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