DBMS > Oracle Coherence vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. Titan vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Oracle Coherence vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. Titan vs. Valentina Server

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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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

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Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.snowflake.com

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Simer Plaha

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2007

2014

2018

2012

1999

Current release

14.1, August 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

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
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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