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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. mSQL vs. NebulaGraph 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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

maxdb.sap.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

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

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.nebula-graph.io

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

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Hughes Technologies

Vesoft Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

1984

1994

2019

2008

2012

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

4.4, October 2021

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

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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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

server-less

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

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

none

Immediate Consistency

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

using RocksDB

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

Role-based access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

NebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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