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System Properties Comparison Teradata vs. TerminusDB vs. Tkrzw vs. VelocityDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

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

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

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

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.teradata.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Teradata

DataChemist Ltd.

Mikio Hirabayashi

VelocityDB Inc

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2018

2020

2011

2019

Current release

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

7.x

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted
Linux

Linux

Linux
macOS

Any that supports .NET

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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 2016 + extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

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

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript
Python

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net

Clojure
Java

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

Sharding

Hashing

Graph Partitioning

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using specific database classes

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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