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System Properties Comparison NSDb vs. StarRocks vs. Titan vs. ToroDB

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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.

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.95
Rank	#193	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Website

nsdb.io

www.starrocks.io

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

8Kdata

Initial release

2017

2020

2012

2016

Current release

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Java
Scala

Java

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual 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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Using Apache Lucene

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.

User concepts

Access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Access rights for users and roles

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Recent citations in the news

StarRocks analytical DB heads to Linux Foundation
14 February 2023, VentureBeat

StarRocks launches managed DBaaS for real-time analytics
14 July 2022, InfoWorld

StarRocks Announces Incorporation of CelerData
1 September 2022, Datanami

CelerData: How This Company Reduces Data Migration And Direct Analysis Costs In Data Lakes
21 December 2023, Pulse 2.0

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14 July 2022, GlobeNewswire

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Amazon DynamoDB Storage Backend for Titan: Distributed Graph Database
24 August 2015, AWS Blog

DataStax acquires Aurelius, the startup behind the Titan graph database
3 February 2015, VentureBeat

DSE Graph review: Graph database does double duty
14 November 2019, InfoWorld

Beyond Titan: The Evolution of DataStax’s New Graph Database
21 June 2016, Datanami

Database Deep Dives: JanusGraph
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