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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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

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

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.93
Rank	#121	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	0.80
Rank	#209	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.stardog.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

typesense.org

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.stardog.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

typesense.org/docs

Developer

Google

Stardog-Union

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2014

2010

2012

2015

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

via event handlers

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

none

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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 in HA-Cluster

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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