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System Properties Comparison OrientDB vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb 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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

orientdb.org

rocksdb.org

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Facebook, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2010

2013

2012

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

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

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Document is locked during a transaction

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

simple password-based access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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