DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. Datomic vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Datomic vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere 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 IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.19
Rank	#176	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.datomic.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

docs.datomic.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Cognitect

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Teradata

Initial release

2018

2012

2013

1992

2005

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

1.0.6735, June 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Clojure
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

R packages

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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