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DBMS > PieCloudDB vs. RDF4J vs. Sphinx vs. Titan vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison PieCloudDB vs. RDF4J vs. Sphinx vs. Titan vs. TypeDB

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NamePieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
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.
DescriptionA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRDF storeSearch engineGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.25
Rank#304  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.openpie.comrdf4j.orgsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titantypedb.com
Technical documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikitypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperOpenPieSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Aurelius, owned by DataStaxVaticle
Initial release2004200120122016
Current release2.1, January 20233.5.1, February 20232.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Proprietary protocolJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesJava
PL/SQL
Python
R
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Clojure
Java
Python
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnoyesno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedyes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneyesMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL StandardnonoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serveryes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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PieCloudDBRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSphinxTitanTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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