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

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

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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.Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBScalable 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 DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbterminusdb.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperThomas MuellerTeradataByteDance, originally TerarkDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20052005201620182017
Current release2.2.220, July 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Prolog, RustC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 Storenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)SQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
C++ API
Java API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsR packagesnoyesyes
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.noneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworknonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access controlRole-based access control

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