DBMS > Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerminusDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerminusDB 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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

terminusdb.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

DataChemist Ltd.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2009

2013

1992

2018

2012

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

17, July 2015

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Prolog, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

none

Graph Partitioning

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Journaling Streams

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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