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DBMS > RavenDB vs. SQL.JS vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison RavenDB vs. SQL.JS vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen vs. Transbase

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NameRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabasePort of SQLite to JavaScriptScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websiteravendb.netsql.js.orgterminusdb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationravendb.net/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperHibernating RhinosAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersDataChemist Ltd.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20102012201819981987
Current release5.4, July 202211.0.0, January 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3commercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC#JavaScriptProlog, RustC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (RQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language (WOQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesPL/SQLyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneJournaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.noneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACIDACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes infoin-memory journalingyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAuthorization levels configured per client per databasenoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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