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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.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

hbase.apache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

hbase.apache.org/book.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Mobiland AG

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Spotify

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2008

2014

2018

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

2.3.4, January 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Data scheme

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

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

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

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Role-based access control

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