DBMS > Altibase vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Teradata vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Teradata vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.bigchaindb.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Altibase

Microsoft

Teradata

Initial release

1999

2016

2014

1984

2005

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Python

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

hosted

hosted
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

JavaScript

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

R packages

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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