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DBMS > MonetDB vs. Riak KV vs. Titan vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Riak KV vs. Titan vs. Transbase

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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.
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikiwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperMonetDB BVOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesAurelius, owned by DataStaxTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2004200920121987
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20233.2.0, December 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCErlangJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Clojure
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, RErlangyesyes
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesSharding infono "single point of failure"yes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyes infoRelationships in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak SecurityUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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