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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. openGauss 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

Widely used open source RDBMS

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#189	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Huawei and openGauss community

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

1995

2019

2012

Current release

8.3.0, January 2024

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Java

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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