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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Machbase Neo vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

machbase.com

terminusdb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

machbase.com/dbms

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Actian Corporation

Machbase

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2013

2018

2011

Current release

11.2, May 2022

V8.0, August 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

selectable replication factor

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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