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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. Quasardb vs. Trafodion vs. Transbase

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

quasar.ai

trafodion.apache.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

quasardb

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2005

2009

2014

1987

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes, via HBase

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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