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System Properties Comparison Oracle Rdb vs. searchxml vs. Titan vs. Trafodion

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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.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

informationpartners gmbh

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1984

2015

2012

2014

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

1.0

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

HP Open VMS

Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Clojure
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

yes, on a single node

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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