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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Infobright 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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

boilerbay.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

terminusdb.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2002

2005

2018

2014

Current release

4.0

11.0.0, January 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

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

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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