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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Riak KV vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

terminusdb.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

DataChemist Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2017

2009

2018

2014

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

3.2.0, December 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Erlang

Prolog, Rust

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

Erlang

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Journaling Streams

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

links between data sets can be stored

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

Role-based access control

yes, using Riak Security

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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