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System Properties Comparison TDengine vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.48
Rank	#107	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

terminusdb.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.tdengine.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

DataChemist Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2019

2018

2014

Current release

3.0, August 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes, via alarm monitoring

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Journaling Streams

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

TDengine™ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantages

High Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenarios

TDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Market metrics

TDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing models

TDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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2 September 2024

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