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System Properties Comparison TerminusDB vs. Trafodion vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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Name

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

Description

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

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

Website

terminusdb.com

trafodion.apache.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

DataChemist Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Transaction Software GmbH

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2018

2014

1987

2011

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.Net

Supported programming languages

JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Journaling Streams

yes, via HBase

Source-replica replication

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

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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