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System Properties Comparison Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Realm vs. STSdb 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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

machbase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

realm.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

machbase.com/dbms

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

realm.io/docs

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Machbase

Microsoft

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

STS Soft SC

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2013

2014

2011

2012

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

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

.NET Client API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
Java

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

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

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

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.

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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