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DBMS > Postgres-XL vs. RDF4J vs. TigerGraph vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Postgres-XL vs. RDF4J vs. TigerGraph vs. Titan

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NamePostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  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.
DescriptionBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRDF storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.postgres-xl.orgrdf4j.orgwww.tigergraph.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.tigergraph.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB200420172012
Current release10 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyesyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoMVCCACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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