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System Properties Comparison TimescaleDB vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.87
Rank	#74	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.47
Rank	#93	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.timescale.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.timescale.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Timescale

Rocket Software

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2017

1985

2011

Current release

2.13.0, November 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

Source-replica replication

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

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

Based on Windows Authentication

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