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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. Teradata vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion vs. VelocityDB

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NameInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.teradata.comterminusdb.comtrafodion.apache.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.teradata.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#trafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperInterSystemsTeradataDataChemist Ltd.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20181984201820142011
Current release2023.3, June 2023Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 201911.0.0, January 20232.3.0, February 20197.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageProlog, RustC++, JavaC#
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
hosted
Linux
LinuxLinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsSQL-like query language (WOQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelyesJava Stored Proceduresno
TriggersyesyesyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoHashingGraph PartitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streamsyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication
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InterSystems IRISTeradataTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistTrafodionVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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