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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. MariaDB vs. OrientDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. Transbase

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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 embedded key-value store for Go.

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

orientdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Teradata

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2013

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2010

2005

1987

Current release

11.3.2, February 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

yes

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

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Java, Javascript

R packages

yes

Triggers

yes

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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.

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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