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System Properties Comparison SQLite vs. Teradata vs. TerminusDB vs. TypeDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

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

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

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

Website

Technical documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.teradata.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

typedb.com/docs

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Teradata

DataChemist Ltd.

Vaticle

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2000

1984

2018

2016

2011

Current release

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

2.26.3, January 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted
Linux

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

.Net

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Hashing

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

Based on Windows Authentication

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