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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. BigObject vs. HBase vs. Teradata Aster

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTablePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedWide column storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financebigobject.iohbase.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iohbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperAxibase CorporationBigObject, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetTeradata
Initial release2013201520082005
Current release155852.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possibleFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuayes infoCoprocessors in JavaR packages
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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