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DBMS > Sqrrl vs. TerminusDB vs. Titan vs. ToroDB vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Sqrrl vs. TerminusDB vs. Titan vs. ToroDB vs. YugabyteDB

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NameSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.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.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Graph DBMSGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
Document store
Wide column store
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Trend Chart
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websitesqrrl.comterminusdb.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titangithub.com/­torodb/­serverwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikidocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.DataChemist Ltd.Aurelius, owned by DataStax8KdataYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20122018201220162017
Current release11.0.0, January 20232.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaProlog, RustJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VMLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)noyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsAccumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
JavaScript
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomaking use of HadoopGraph Partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backendsShardingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infomaking use of HadoopJournaling StreamsyesSource-replica replicationBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityACIDACIDnoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)Role-based access controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess rights for users and rolesyes
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SqrrlTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistTitanToroDBYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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