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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Hypertable vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

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

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

terminusdb.com

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

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

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

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Microsoft

Hypertable Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Transaction Software GmbH

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2010

2009

2018

1987

2012

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

11.0.0, January 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++

Prolog, Rust

C and C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Journaling Streams

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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