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System Properties Comparison Apache Derby vs. TerminusDB vs. TimescaleDB

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Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.04
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#327	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	3.59
Rank	#72	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

terminusdb.com

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

DataChemist Ltd.

Timescale

Initial release

1997

2018

2017

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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