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DBMS > Oracle vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Oracle vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion vs. VelocityDB

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NameOracle  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.
DescriptionWidely used RDBMSScalable 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 modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1221.06
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#362  Overall
#38  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­databaseterminusdb.comtrafodion.apache.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­databaseterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#trafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperOracleDataChemist Ltd.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPVelocityDB Inc
Initial release1980201820142011
Current release23c, September 202311.0.0, January 20232.3.0, February 20197.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++Prolog, RustC++, JavaC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxLinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columnsyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (WOQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
JavaScript
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possibleyesJava Stored Proceduresno
TriggersyesyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningGraph PartitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streamsyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocan be realized in PL/SQLnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoisolation level can be parameterizedACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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