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DBMS > KairosDB vs. Memgraph vs. Titan vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Memgraph vs. Titan vs. Vitess

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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.
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.60
Rank#238  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#94  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#202  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbmemgraph.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanvitess.io
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iomemgraph.com/­docsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikivitess.io/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperMemgraph LtdAurelius, owned by DataStaxThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2013201720122013
Current release1.2.2, November 201815.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infodynamic graph partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication using RAFTyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infowith snapshot isolationACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes 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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlUsers, roles and permissionsUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
More information provided by the system vendor
KairosDBMemgraphTitanVitess
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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