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System Properties Comparison SQream DB vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

sqream.com

swaydb.simer.au

terminusdb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.sqream.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

SQream Technologies

Simer Plaha

DataChemist Ltd.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2017

2018

1998

Current release

2022.1.6, December 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Scala

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions in Python

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

none

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Journaling Streams

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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