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System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. TDengine 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

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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Score	2.48
Rank	#107	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.tdengine.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2013

2019

2012

Current release

9.4.0, June 2024

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

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

Linux

Linux
Windows

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, via alarm monitoring

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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