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System Properties Comparison NuoDB vs. Riak TS vs. Stardog 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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

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Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.stardog.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.stardog.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Stardog-Union

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2013

2015

2010

2012

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Erlang

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

via event handlers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Access rights for users and roles

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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