Apache Trafodion is an

open-source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

Top-Level Project at the

Apache Software Foundation The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is an American nonprofit corporation (classified as a 501(c)(3) organization in the United States) to support a number of open source software projects. The ASF was formed from a group of developers of the A ...

. It was originally developed by the

information technology Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology system (I ...

division of

Hewlett-Packard Company The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...

and

HP Labs HP Labs is the exploratory and advanced research group for HP Inc. HP Labs' headquarters is in Palo Alto, California and the group has research and development facilities in Bristol, UK. The development of programmable desktop calculators, ink ...

to provide the SQL query language on

Apache HBase HBase is an open-source non-relational distributed database modeled after Google's Bigtable and written in Java. It is developed as part of Apache Software Foundation's Apache Hadoop project and runs on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File Syst ...

targeting

big data Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...

transactional or operational workloads. The project was named after the Welsh word for transactions. As of April 2021, it is no longer actively developed.

Features

Trafodion is a

relational database management system A relational database is a (most commonly digital) database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970. A system used to maintain relational databases is a relational database management system (RDBMS). Many relatio ...

that runs on

Apache Hadoop Apache Hadoop () is a collection of open-source software utilities that facilitates using a network of many computers to solve problems involving massive amounts of data and computation. It provides a software framework for distributed storage ...

, providing support for transactional or operational workloads in a

environment. The following is a list of key features: * ANSI SQL language support *

JDBC Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) is an application programming interface (API) for the programming language Java, which defines how a client may access a database. It is a Java-based data access technology used for Java database connectivity. I ...

and

Open Database Connectivity In computing, Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a standard application programming interface (API) for accessing database management systems (DBMS). The designers of ODBC aimed to make it independent of database systems and operating systems. An ...

(ODBC) connectivity for Linux and Windows clients * Distributed

ACID In computer science, ACID ( atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) is a set of properties of database transactions intended to guarantee data validity despite errors, power failures, and other mishaps. In the context of databases, a sequ ...

transaction protection across multiple statements, tables, and rows * Compile-time and run-time optimizations for real-time operational workloads * Support for large data sets using a parallel-aware query optimizer and a parallel data-flow execution engine Transaction management features include: * Begin, commit, and rollback work syntax, including SET TRANSACTION * READ COMMITTED transactional isolation level * Multiple SQL processes participating in the same transaction concurrently * Recovery after region server, transaction manager, or node failure * Support for region splits and balancing

History

Trafodion was launched by HP as an

project on June 10, 2014. A version of Trafodion was released on January 29, 2015. Trafodion became an Apache Incubation Project in May 2015. Trafodion graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation in January 2018.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Trafodion Trafodion Bigtable implementations Hadoop Free database management systems Structured storage

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