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System Properties Comparison NSDb vs. Titan vs. YottaDB

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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

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

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

nsdb.io

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2017

2012

2001

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Eventual 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

optimistic locking

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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Recent citations in the news

DataStax Acquires Aurelius and its TitanDB Graph Database
31 May 2024, Data Center Knowledge

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

Titan Graph Database Integration with DynamoDB: World-class Performance, Availability, and Scale for New Workloads
20 August 2015, All Things Distributed

JanusGraph Picks Up Where TitanDB Left Off
13 January 2017, Datanami

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