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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

nsdb.io

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

graphite.readthedocs.io

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Mobiland AG

Chris Davis

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2018

2006

2017

1987

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java, Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes: int, bigint, decimal, 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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

HTTP API
Sockets

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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