DBMS > Newts vs. OpenSearch vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Newts vs. OpenSearch vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb 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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

quasar.ai

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

opensearch.org/docs/latest

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

OpenNMS Group

Amazon Web Services

quasardb

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2014

2021

2009

2013

2012

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Java API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

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

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

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

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

simple password-based access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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