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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. RisingWave vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

boilerbay.com

www.postgres-xl.org

www.risingwave.com/database

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

RisingWave Labs

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2002

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2022

2018

Current release

4.0

10 R1, October 2018

1.2, September 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Docker
Linux
macOS

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

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

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
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

UDFs in Python or Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Users and Roles

Role-based access control

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