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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Drizzle vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Drizzle vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerminusDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle 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.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query ServerDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikihelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperRackspaceDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSAP, SybaseTeradataDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20132008198720052018
Current release7.2.4, September 201216.011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava and Transact-SQLR packagesyes
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-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.Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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