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System Properties Comparison Newts vs. RDF4J vs. SpatiaLite 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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

opennms.github.io/newts

rdf4j.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

OpenNMS Group

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Alessandro Furieri

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2014

2004

2008

2012

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

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

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Java API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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