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System Properties Comparison TerminusDB vs. VoltDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

terminusdb.com

www.voltdb.com

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

Technical documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.voltdb.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

DataChemist Ltd.

VoltDB Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2010

2019

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

11.3, April 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Java, C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

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

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Journaling Streams

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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