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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. SpaceTime vs. Teradata Aster vs. TimesTen

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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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Altibase

Mireo

Teradata

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1999

2020

2005

1998

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C#
C++
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

R packages

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

yes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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