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System Properties Comparison OrigoDB vs. PostGIS 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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

origodb.com

postgis.net

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

origodb.com/docs

postgis.net/documentation

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Robert Friberg et al

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2009

under the name LiveDB

2005

2012

2014

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

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

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net

Clojure
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

depending on model

yes

Relationships in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

yes

based on PostgreSQL

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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