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DBMS > Newts vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb vs. Teradata Aster vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Newts vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb vs. Teradata Aster vs. Titan

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NameNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.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.
DescriptionTime Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websiteopennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.aiwww.sequoiadb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperOpenNMS GroupquasardbSequoiadb Ltd.TeradataAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20142009201320052012
Current release3.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesyes
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.nononoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnoyes infowith tagsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Java API
HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJavaScriptR packagesyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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