DBMS > Blueflood vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RocksDB 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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

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

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

blueflood.io

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Rackspace

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2013

2016

2013

2005

Current release

5.10, January 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

R packages

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source 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

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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