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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. OpenQM vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Teradata Aster

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Name	BigObject  Xexclude from comparison	OpenQM also called QM  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Teradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.	Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
Description	Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries	QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database model	Relational DBMS a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed	Multivalue DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.19 Rank #329   Overall #146   Relational DBMS	Score 0.34 Rank #284   Overall #10   Multivalue DBMS
Website	bigobject.io	www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	docs.bigobject.io
Developer	BigObject, Inc.	Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips	Sybase, SAP	Teradata
Initial release	2015	1993	1993	2005
Current release		3.4-12
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial free community edition available	Open Source GPLv2, extended commercial license available	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Server operating systems	Linux distributed as a docker-image OS X distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker) Windows distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)	AIX FreeBSD Linux macOS Raspberry Pi Solaris Windows	Linux Windows	Linux
Data scheme	yes	yes with some exceptions	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		yes	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.	no	yes	no	yes in Aster File Store
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like DML and DDL statements	no	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	fluentd ODBC RESTful HTTP API		.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages		.Net Basic C Java Objective C PHP Python	Delphi Perl PHP	C C# C++ Java Python R
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	Lua	yes	yes	R packages
Triggers	no	yes	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	yes	none	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts 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	no	no	no	yes SQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes automatically between fact table and dimension tables	no	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no
User concepts Access control	no	Access rights can be defined down to the item level	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	BigObject	OpenQM also called QM	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Teradata Aster
Recent citations in the news			SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News	Northwestern Analytics Partners with Teradata Aster to Host Hackathon 23 May 2014, Northwestern Engineering Teradata Provides the Simplest Way to Bring the Science of Data to the Art of Business 22 September 2011, PR Newswire Teradata's Aster shows how the flowers of fraud bloom 23 April 2015, The Register Case study: Siemens reduces train failures with Teradata Aster 12 September 2016, RCR Wireless News Teradata unveils improved QueryGrid connectors 21 April 2015, CIO provided by Google News

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