DBMS > Oracle vs. Riak KV vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Titan vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Oracle vs. Riak KV vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Titan vs. Trino

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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

Widely used RDBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

trino.io

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Oracle

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

formerly Sybase

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

1980

2009

1992

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

23c, September 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Erlang

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

SQL standard access control

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