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System Properties Comparison TimescaleDB vs. Trafodion vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architectureMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSearch engine
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Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.timescale.comtrafodion.apache.orgwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodbwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdocs.timescale.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmldocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODBdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperTimescaleApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPTranswarpRocket Software
Initial release201720141985
Current release2.15.0, May 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++, JavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyesyesoptional
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellJava Stored Proceduresyes
Triggersyesnoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoyes, via HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoconfigurable
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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