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DBMS > H2 vs. PlanetScale vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerminusDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. PlanetScale vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerminusDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.complanetscale.comterminusdb.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlplanetscale.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperThomas MuellerPlanetScaleTeradataDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20052020200520182017
Current release2.2.220, July 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGoProlog, RustC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMDocker
Linux
macOS
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infoin Aster File Storenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)SQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoproprietary syntaxR packagesyesyes
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworknoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID at shard levelACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlRole-based access control

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