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System Properties Comparison TerminusDB vs. Tigris 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

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

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#55	Key-value stores
	#24	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

terminusdb.com

www.tigrisdata.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

DataChemist Ltd.

Tigris Data, Inc.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2018

2022

2012

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

JavaScript
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes, using FoundationDB

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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