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Name

Description

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Microsoft

quasardb

Dwayne Richard Hipp

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2010

2009

2000

2018

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

.NET

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

via file-system locks

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

by using LevelDB

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Role-based access control

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