An introduction to Titan

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Apache Titan

• What is Titan ?
• Graph Storage
• Uses Tinkerpop
• CAP Theorum
• Architecture
• Books

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Titan What is it ?

• A Graph Database
• Created by Aurelius, now owned by Datastax
• Apache 2 license
• Tinkerpop integration
• Highly scaleable
• Supports ACID
• High performance
• Datastax is developing DSE graph database
• Influenced by Titan

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Titan Graph Storage

• Titan storage backends
• Apache HBase
• Datastax Cassandra
• Oracle Berkeley DB
• Integrates with
• ElasticSearch
• Solr
• Lucene

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Titan Tinkerpop

• Titan 0.9.x uses Tinkerpop
• Gremlin Frames
• Rexster Blueprint
• Has graph interaction via
• OLTP
• OLAP
• GraphComputer vertex prog.
• Gremlin server access by
• Gremlin console
• REST API
• Java

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Titan CAP Theorum

• CAP Theorum
• CConsistency
• AAvailability
• PPartitionability
• HBase favours consistency
• At expense of yield
• i.e. non completed requests
• Cassandra favours availability
• At expense of harvest
• i.e. completeness of answer
• Berkeley DB is non distributed

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Titan Architecture
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Available Books

• See our Hadoop book from Apress / Springer
• Big Data Made Easy
• Look out for our Apache Spark based book
• from Packt in 2015

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