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DBMS > Quasardb vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Quasardb vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion

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NameQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitequasar.aigithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#trafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperquasardbSTS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2009201120182014
Current release3.14.1, January 20244.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C#Prolog, RustC++, Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infointeger and binaryyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.NET Client APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneJournaling Streamsyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodswith Hadoop integrationnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using LevelDByesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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