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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. SwayDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. Titan vs. XTDB

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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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

swaydb.simer.au

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Simer Plaha

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1994

2018

2009

2012

2019

Current release

4.4, October 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Groovy
Java

Clojure
Java
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes, each node contains all data

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

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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