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DBMS > SwayDB vs. Teradata vs. TimescaleDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison SwayDB vs. Teradata vs. TimescaleDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteswaydb.simer.auwww.teradata.comwww.timescale.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.teradata.comdocs.timescale.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperSimer PlahaTeradataTimescaleVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2018198420172011
Current releaseTeradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 20192.15.0, May 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaCC#
Server operating systemshosted
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
Supported programming languagesJava
Kotlin
Scala
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in paralleluser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellno
TriggersnoyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoHashingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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