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Name

Description

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.18
Rank	#314	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Score	2.90
Rank	#87	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#131	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

milvus.io

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2018

2019

Current release

2.3, January 2021

2.4.4, May 2024

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

Triggers

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

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 capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

yes

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Specific characteristics

TDengine™ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantages

High Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenarios

TDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Market metrics

TDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing models

TDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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