DBMS > jBASE vs. Quasardb vs. SQLite vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Quasardb vs. SQLite 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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

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Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

quasar.ai

www.sqlite.org

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

quasardb

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

1991

2009

2000

2012

Current release

5.7

3.14.1, January 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

integer and binary

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

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

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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